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NASA on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the big orange-and-white parachute hurtling open and the red dust kicking up as rocket engines lowered the rover to the surface. The footage was so good — and the images so breathtaking — that members of the rover team said they felt like they were riding along. “It gives me goose bumps every time I see it, just amazing,” said Dave Gruel, head of the entry and descent camera team. The Perseverance rover landed on Thursday last week near an ancient river delta in Jezero

LOS ANGELES — NASA scientists on Monday unveiled first-of-a-kind home movies of last week’s’ daredevil Mars rover landing, vividly showing its supersonic…

NASA scientists have unveiled first-of-a-kind home movies of last week's' daredevil Mars rover landing, vividly showing its supersonic parachute inflation over the red planet and a rocket-powered hovercraft lowering the science lab on wheels to the surface.

In the ultimate selfie, NASA's Perseverance rover has recorded what it's like to land on another planet for the first time.

Perseverance pays off An illustration of the last, critical stage of Mars Perseverance rover's safe landing. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech NASA’s perseverance rover- It started with the type of chatter you might hear from someone setting up a complex sound system.  “Voice check, Smith.”  “Telemetry?” “I read you…”  Lots of names (not actually named Smith and Jones). Calm, measured voices from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, plus others chiming in by laptop and phone from around the world. But the calm overlaid an underlying tension. Because even bef...