'Something we've never seen' - Mars rover beams back selfie from moment before landing

'Something we've never seen' - Mars rover beams back selfie from moment before landing

The Hindu

(Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to take the jargon out of science and put the fun in. Click here.) NASA scientists on Friday presented striking early images from the picture-perfect landing of the Mars rover Perseverance, including a selfie of the six-wheeled vehicle dangling just above the surface of the Red Planet moments before touchdown.
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