The Perseverance returned its first image after landing on Mars.
CNN reported that the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched a probe to Mars (The Perseverance) after “seven minutes of terror” (seven minutes of terror), landed safely on the surface of Mars on the 18th.
This is the most advanced probe NASA has ever launched to Mars, and the Perseverance will collect data and look for signs of ancient Life in craters where lakes once existed 3.9 billion years ago.
A few minutes after its successful landing, Trailblazer immediately sent an image of the Martian surface back to Earth, the first of many images Trailblazer will send back to Earth from Mars.
Although scientists have done numerous computer simulations beforehand, the distance between Mars and Earth will delay the signal transmission and make it impossible to know the immediate situation, so the landing process is also known as the “seven minutes of terror”.
As the probe descended to land, scientists were unable to actually manipulate it, so they had to input landing instructions in advance so that the probe could enter the Martian atmosphere with a precise 12-degree angle cut to avoid burning the probe; after passing through the atmosphere, they then used atmospheric resistance to finally open the counter-propulsion rocket, a process that took about seven minutes.
NASA personnel cheered as the Trailblazer successfully landed on Mars.
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