A month later, we’re all still buzzing about the perfect landing of the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater on Mars on February 18, 2021. In the past few weeks, NASA has released breathtaking images and footage of the landing, and since then, the worldwide roster of Citizen scientists and image editing enthusiasts have taken steps to enhance and enhance all of the incredible scenes captured by Perseverance’s collection of high definition cameras.
One of our favorites is this artificially colored view of Jezero Crater, which shows the bird’s eye view of perseverance screaming toward the Martian surface. The above image was brought in full color by Kevin Gill and captured images captured with Perseverance’s Lander Vision System camera immediately after the heat shield was released. At the bottom left of the picture you can see the heat shield sloping towards the surface.
“This includes about ten images captured by LCAM to create a wider field of view than my previous attempt,” Kevin said on Twitter. You can see the full picture on Kevin’s Flickr page.
Kevin’s “previous attempt” mentioned above is also insane:
On the video page, one of the best visuals we’ve seen of Perseverance’s descent is from Mathew Earl, who projected the incredible descent video onto the surface of images from ESA’s Mars Express Orbiter, showing the full context of the rover’s landing. along with a scale that provides information on how big the features actually are on the ground.
“One thing that I found remarkable was the self-similarity of the Martian terrain,” wrote Matthew Earl on his website. “When the lander descends towards the ground, it is difficult to get a sense of size because there is no familiar frame of reference that tells us how far away the ground is.” This has led him to tackle this project and he explains the process in detail on his website.
Raziel Abulafia shared his colored version – along with suitable music – of the heat shield footage on Twitter, in which you can watch the heat shield fall and collapse, along with a Wylie Coyote-like cloud of dust when it hits the ground.
These are just a few examples of the work of the “amateurs” doing an incredible job. With all the breathtaking images that the Perseverance rover sends back, we look forward to more wonderful work from all image editing enthusiasts around the world. Here you can review all of the raw images generated by the various cameras on the rover.
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