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Perseverance's landing gear from above

Perseverance's landing gear from above
Perseverance's landing gear from above Mission engineers for NASA’s Perseverance rover asked the Ingenuity Mars helicopter team to capture images of the landing gear that brought the rover and ’copter to the Martian surface in February 2021. The photo, which shows the parachute in the distance and the demolished backshell in the foreground, can help mission engineers understand the landing system’s performance and improve the design for future missions. NASA/JPL-Caltech