High-Performance Cameras to Film Perseverance Rover Landing
Last month, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover landed on the red planet after 5.5 months of traveling through space. The rover’s primary mission is to search for signs of ancient microscopic life and collect the first ever Martian soil samples for analysis.
Equally important to the NASA engineers, however, is the filming of the rover’s parachute deployment and the craft’s actual landing on Mars. NASA has taken still photos of the planetary descent in previous Mars missions, but never filmed a spacecraft during entry, descent and landing (EDL).