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Team Cheers After Perseverance Landing

Members of NASA’s Perseverance rover team react as they hear Perseverance is safe on the ground

February 18, 2021

Members of NASA’s Perseverance rover team react in Mission Control after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory built and manages operations of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover for NASA.

For more information about the mission, go to: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020.

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NASA/Bill Ingalls

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