NASA's Perseverance rover takes its first color photos of Mars

NASA has released new images of the Perseverance rover on Mars, including a shot taken during the 'seven minutes of terror' when it endured tumultuous conditions that battered the craft as it entered the Martian atmosphere and approached the surface. The rover beamed a new image back without the camera lens that shows the Martian landscape in full color After landing, two of the Hazard Cameras captured views from the front and rear of the rover, showing one of its wheels in the Martian dirt The colored image was snapped by the sky crane following the 'seven minutes of terror,' which is when Perseverance shot through Mars' atmosphere like a speeding built as it traveled 12,000 miles per hour before slowing down to zero in order to safely land on the surface. Perseverance sent its first image of the crater back moments after NASA established radio contact with the rover Thursday, which shows the rover's first look at the Martian world in black and white. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance orbiter also captured amazing images of Perseverance, showing it attached to the sonic parachute moments after shooting through the Martian atmosphere like a comet Although Perseverance had many obstacles ahead of it from the moment it left Earth, NASA was particularly worried about the rocky landscape of the landing target and if the rover's cameras would help it avoid uneven terrain during the decent. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance orbiter also captured also captured the targeted landing spot while hovering above Mars Perseverance, the biggest, most advanced rover ever sent by NASA, became the ninth spacecraft to successfully land on Mars, every one of them from the U.S., beginning in the 1970s NASA's Mars Reconnaissance orbiter, which has been circling the Red Planet since 2006, also captured an amazing image of Perseverance before it made landfall, give the NASA team a bird's eye view of the event.