Perseverance's Descent and Touchdown
I think we might be living in the future… we’ve got a satellite (the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) snapping pictures of Perseverance parachuting down to Mars, and now today high def video of the actual landing. Wow!
![Perseverance parachuting to Mars](/images/perseverance_descent.jpg)
Perseverance seen from orbit (credit to NASA/JPL/UofA)