Perseverance, nicknamed Percy, is a car-sized Mars rover designed to explore the crater Jezero on Mars as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission. It was manufactured by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched on July 30, 2020, at 11:50 UTC.
The NASA Perseverance twitter page shared an image of the fateful event that shows a plume of smoke in the distance following sky crane's impact. 'A moment of respect for the descent stage. NASA will make a daring attempt to land its Perseverance rover on Mars in its most complex mission yet to hunt for ancient extraterrestrial life, kicking off the first leg of a grand relay race to. The latest tweets from @NASAPersevere. The latest tweets from @NASAPersevere.
© NASA/Getty A still image taken by cameras aboard the descent stage of NASA’s Perseverance rover as it touched down on Mars. Since then, Perseverance's Twitter account has gained millions of followers.NASA's Perseverance rover has its own Twitter account, and it has amassed more than 2 million followers since landing on Mars on February 18th.
On that day alone, 752,943 people followed the account amid its high-profile touchdown on the surface of the red planet, according to the social media tracking website Socialblade.
The account, which is run by a five-person team who work for NASA, tweets as though the rover itself is writing. Clash of clans zeplin nasıl yapılır. The team have said they aim to give the 1,000kg robot a personality.
When the rover landed on Mars and beamed its first photo back from the surface, the account tweeted: 'Hello, world. My first look at my forever home.' The tweet gained nearly 1 million likes and over 225,000 retweets.
Hello, world. My first look at my forever home. #CountdownToMars pic.twitter.com/dkM9jE9I6X
— NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 18, 2021Since then the rover's account has posted a number of other photos that the vehicle has taken with its on-board cameras.
Captioning one photo that showed some rocks on the Martian surface, the account tweeted: 'I love rocks. Look at these right next to my wheel. Are they volcanic or sedimentary? What story do they tell? Can't wait to find out.'
I love rocks. Look at these right next to my wheel. Are they volcanic or sedimentary? What story do they tell? Can’t wait to find out.#CountdownToMarshttps://t.co/7w3rbvbyoL pic.twitter.com/H3q1M0YJAd
— NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 19, 2021The team behind the Twitter account have said they try to make the rover different from the other robots that have gone to Mars before it.
Stephanie L. Smith, digital and social media lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a member of Perseverance's Twitter team, told USA Today: 'If Perseverance is anything, she's a boss. She's the biggest, most ambitious rover we've ever sent to the surface of another planet.'
Carolina Martínez, a member of the team and manager for Mars public engagement at NASA, added: 'That personality sort of becomes self-evident and very recognizable to us as we work closely with the mission team.'
The team also makes it seem as though Perseverance interacts with other accounts linked to spacecraft, including NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or HiRISE, which takes photos of the red planet's surface from space.
Nasa Perseverance Twitter
On Monday, the Perseverance account tweeted: 'Thanks for looking out for me, HiRISE. Long before I got here, you helped map this place out.'
Thanks for looking out for me, @HiRISE. Long before I got here, you helped map this place out. Now we’ve got a whole new perspective. So much to explore.https://t.co/Ex1QDo3eC2 https://t.co/ZthfrJqmAG pic.twitter.com/qPuzHEM297
— NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) March 1, 2021HiRISE took a photo of Perseverance at its landing site almost a week after the rover touched down on the surface of Mars.
Perseverance First Image Twitter
The account first posted on March 5, 2020, with a tweet that read: 'Call me Perseverance. I'm headed for Mars: driven to search for signs of ancient life, test new tech to help future human explorers, and collect the first rock samples for future return to Earth.'
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NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has already accomplished tremendous things. But, just days after a dramatic landing in the Martian desert, the rover hasn't started rumbling great distances around the red planet.
Yet a viral video circulating on Twitter — already viewed 17.1 million times as of Feb. 20 from just one account (there are millions more views elsewhere) — presents a different, bogus story.
The video, which also includes deceiving audio, shows what appears to be panorama imagery captured by the Mars Curiosity rover. This NASA rover landed on Mars in 2012, and has since traveled over 15 miles of rocky terrain. Over the years, Curiosity has captured a plethora of rich, vivid Mars imagery.
For reference, here's a screenshot of the fake Perservance video. Below it, we describe some of the conspicuous ways we know it's not from the latest Mars rover mission.
Why it's not a Perseverance video
NASA hasn't instructed Perseverance to drive anywhere yet. The video shows a long trail of rover tracks.
At the end of the video, you can see 'Curiosity' printed on the rover (bottom left).
NASA also hasn't instructed Perseverance to lift its mast yet (as of Feb. 20), which holds the high-definition cameras that might capture such imagery.
Perseverance has microphones to capture Martian sound. The Curiosity rover doesn't have these microphones. However, around two years ago NASA engineers found a clever way to sense some Martian wind using NASA's InSight lander. Web scraper chrome extension. But the sounds in the video have no connection to Curiosity's imagery.
The imagery looks like it's taken on a high ridge. Usb wired mouse for mac. Perseverance intentionally landed in a crater near an ancient river delta, where NASA believes water once existed on Mars.
The Perseverance rover, fitted with extraordinary technology to seek out potential evidence of past microbial life on Mars, has a promising future, whatever it does (or doesn't) find.
To authentically follow what the rover is up to on social media, avoid random Twitter videos and simply follow NASA's Perservance account. The agency will avidly follow everything the wheeled robot does. Like many of us, they are thrilled about their latest rover.
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