Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This video provides a discussion of the Mastcam-Z component of NASA's Perseverance rover.

Watch the MARS 2020 landing live: tinyurl.com/1rvi50gu

Other Mars 2020 Videos:
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity - youtu.be/3ecg5DJbqz0​
Newton's Law Analysis of the Perseverance Launch - tinyurl.com/y45efqnp​
PIXL - Looking for Ancient Life on Mars - tinyurl.com/y3a24mx7​
Mastcam-Z - Looking For Life on Mars - Coming Soon!
MEDA - Analyzing Weather on Mars - tinyurl.com/ybyvwtdb​
Meet Perseverance, the 2020 Mars Rover - tinyurl.com/y7c9zdw5​
MOXIE - Making Oxygen on Mars - tinyurl.com/yal79d4w​
How Will We Breathe in Space? - tinyurl.com/y8t589ra​
Naming the NASA 2020 Rover - tinyurl.com/yakwaq7n​

#Mars2020 #CountdownToMars​ #PerseveranceRover​

Image credits:
Hubble's Spectacular Wide View of the Universe - NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth and D. Magee (University of California, Santa Cruz), K. Whitaker (University of Connecticut), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), P. Oesch (University of Geneva), and the Hubble Legacy Field team.
spacetelescope.org/images/heic1909a
Mars Hubble - NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team spacetelescope.org/images/opo0124a
First Humans on Mars - NASA, jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA23302
Karte Mars Schiaparelli - Giovanni Schiaparelli, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karte_Mars_Schiaparelli_MKL1888.png
Mars Channels - Percival Lowell, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lowell_Mars_channels.jpg
Cyanobacteria-algal mat - Aleksey Nagovitsyn commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyanobacterial-algal_mat.jpg
A bluegreen algae species Cylindrospermum sp under magnification - Willem van Aken, CSIRO http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/image/4203
Chroococcidiopsis thermalis - T. Darienko space.com/40898-low-light-bacteria-mars-colonization.html
Curiosity Self Portrait - NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems Derivative work including grading, distortion correction, minor local adjustments and rendering from tiff-file: Julian Herzog - photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16239, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22530191
Opportunity - NASA - nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info;jsessionid=8gslp46qrq7tk?id=KSC-03PD-0786&orgid=5, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10963434
Spirit - NASA/JPL/Cornell University, Maas Digital LLC - photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04413 (image link), Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=565283
War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_War_of_the_Worlds_first_edition.jpg
The War of the Worlds by Henrique Alvim Corrêa, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_War_of_the_Worlds_by_Henrique_Alvim_Corr%C3%AAa_08_b%26w.jpg
Halobacteria - NASA, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halobacteria.jpg
Champagne Vent White Smokers - NOAA, oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04fire/logs/hirez/champagne_vent_hirez.jpg
Swirling Dust in Gale Crater - NASA, NASA/JPL-Caltech/TAMU
Mastcam-Z - NASA: mars.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/24223/the-tippy-top-of-mars-2020
Mars2020Rover-23Cameras - NASA/JPL-Caltech, photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA22103.jpg
Mastcam-Z model cameras - NASA, mars.nasa.gov/resources/21363/mastcam-z-model
Mastcam-z-lens-packaging-diagram-labeled-full - NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS, mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/science/for-scientists/instruments/mastcam-z
Jezero Crater's Ancient Lakeshore - NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JHU-APL/ESA, mars.nasa.gov/resources/24681/jezero-craters-ancient-lakeshore
Jezero Crater Minerals - NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JHU-APL/Purdue/USGS, mars.nasa.gov/resources/24680/jezero-crater-minerals/?site=insight
Stromatolithe Paléoarchéen - Didier Descouens, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stromatolithe_Pal%C3%A9oarch%C3%A9en_-_MNHT.PAL.2009.10.1.jpg

Other images created by Noel Pauller

Video Credits: NASA, Noel Pauller

Music: Mission to Mars by Audio Hertz, Flames by Dan Henig

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