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                              2021 February 19

                           Mars Perseverance Sol 0
                     Image Credit: NASA, JPL, Mars 2020

   Explanation: After a 203 day interplanetary voyage, and seven minutes
   of terror, Perseverance has landed on Mars. Confirmation of the
   successful landing at Jezero crater was announced from mission control
   at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California at 12:55 pm
   PST on February 18. The car-sized Mars rover's Front Left Hazard
   Avoidance Camera acquired this initial low resolution image shortly
   after touchdown on mission Sol 0. A protective cover is still on the
   camera, but the shadow of Perseverance, now the most ambitious rover
   sent to the Red Planet, is visible cast across the martian surface.

                      Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend
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