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Video footage from Nasa showed views captured from several cameras on the Perseverance Mars rover, including one pointed at the parachute and another at the Martian surface. Photo: Nasa via AP

Nasa releases first video of Perseverance rover’s dramatic Mars landing

  • The footage shows the vehicle deploying its parachute before touching down on the red planet in a cloud of dust
  • The US space agency also shared the first audio recording from Mars – a faint sound of wind
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The US space agency Nasa on Monday released the first audio from Mars, a faint wind sound captured by the Perseverance rover.

Nasa also released the first video of the landing of the rover on the red planet.

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Nasa releases first video of Perseverance rover landing on Mars

Nasa releases first video of Perseverance rover landing on Mars

A microphone did not work during the descent but the rover was able to capture audio once it landed on Mars.

Nasa engineers played a short audio clip of what they said was a wind gust on the surface.

The video clip, lasting three minutes and 25 seconds, showed the deployment of the parachute and the rover’s touchdown on the surface of Mars in a cloud of dust.

“These are really amazing videos,” Michael Watkins, director of Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said at a briefing for reporters. “This is the first time we’ve ever been able to capture an event like the landing on Mars.”

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Jessica Samuels, Perseverance’s surface mission manager, said the rover was operating as expected so far.

“I am happy to report that Perseverance is healthy,” Samuels said.

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