Update: NASA's ambitious Perseverance rover lands on Mars and sends back its first images

The Perseverance rover gets lowered down to the Martian surface, seen in one of the first high-resolution images sent back to Earth. Image credit: NASA Update: (Friday, February 19, 2021 at 2:46 PM): Since first publishing this article, NASA has shared new, high-resolution images of the Perseverance rover, including one taken from its ‘jetpack’ that lowered the rover down to the Martian surface. On July 30, 2020, NASA launched its Mars Perseverance Rover on an Atlas V rocket from...