December 23, 2024

Perseverance rover snaps first Mars photos after communications blackout. They’re stunning.

Its even telephoned house with its first Mars pictures because reawakening.The car-sized Perseverance and other Mars spacecraft had to stand down for about two weeks just recently when the Red Planet slipped behind the sun from Earths viewpoint. In this alignment, understood as solar combination, our star can corrupt commands sent from Earth to Mars, so NASA and other space companies dont take the chance.But Mars has actually come back into view for mission controls around the world, including that of Perseverance, which is based at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The six-wheeled robot has actually woken up and resumed exploring Jezero Crater, a 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) hole in the ground that hosted a lake and a river delta billions of years ago.Related: Where to find the latest Mars pictures from NASAs Perseverance roverAnother image taken by one of the Mars rover Perseverances navigation electronic cameras on Oct. 22, 2021.