On February 18, 2021, NASA successfully landed the Perseverance rover on Mars after traveling about 471 million kilometers from Earth. As it entered the Martian atmosphere at nearly 20,000 km/h, a powerful heat shield protected it from extreme heat. A supersonic parachute then deployed to slow it down. What followed was the intense “Seven Minutes of Terror.” Perseverance separated from the parachute, fired its rockets, and was carefully lowered to the surface using the sky crane system. Once the

268K views · 5.4K reactions | Watch incredible footage of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing on Mars’ Jezero Crater in February 2021. This landing began a mission to explore the Red Planet that still continues today. | NOVA l PBS | Facebook

290K views · 12K reactions | On Feb. 18, our NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover lands in the Red Planet's Jezero Crater, where it will look for signs of ancient microbial life & collect samples for future missions to return to Earth. Watch live #CountdownToMars coverage from our NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, starting at 2:15 p.m. EST: https://go.nasa.gov/3k2VzmV | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook