NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover just landed: These are the first images

NASA’s Mars rover has successfully landed on Mars, with Perseverance managing a nail-biting descent and beaming back the first picture from the Martian surface. It’s the dramatic culmination of a long journey that began on July 30, 2020, with Perseverance now being around 127 million miles away from Earth. The huge distance forced NASA to equip Perseverance to undertake the …