These two documents that NASA has just made public are exceptional.
The Perseverance rover captured a spectacular video of its landing recorded from all angles, and the sound of a gust of Martian wind, the first audio recorded on the Red Planet by a microphone.
The vehicle, whose mission is to find evidence of ancient life on Mars, landed last week, the first stage of a journey of at least two years during which it will take samples that will have to be brought back to Earth by a mission later to be analyzed.
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The Perseverance robot has landed on Mars
Just over three minutes long, the video extract published by the American space agency reveals the images of several cameras located at different places on the module, after its entry into the Martian atmosphere.
One shows the deployment of the supersonic parachute, another, located under the rover, the Martian soil approaching, and two views capture the module gradually deposited on the ground, suspended by three cables from the descent stage.
"This is the first time that we have been able to capture an event such as a landing on Mars," Michael Watkins, director of the legendary Jet Propulsion Laboratory where Perseverance was built, told a press conference.
"It's really fantastic".
"These images and videos are what we have dreamed of for years," said Allen Chen, in charge of the landing phase for NASA.