After seven months in space, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on the surface of Mars on Thursday. NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, the most sophisticated astrobiology lab ever sent to yet another planet, landed safely in a vast crater in its initially quit on a search for traces of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. The official Twitter account of NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover shared a black and white photo of the planet’s surface. “Hello, world. My first look at my forever home,” the tweet study
Hello, planet. My initially look at my forever household. #CountdownToMarspic.twitter.com/dkM9jE9I6X
— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 18, 2021
It was followed by yet another image of the Jezero Crater – the internet site of a lengthy-vanished Martian lake bed in which the rover landed.
And yet another look behind me. Welcome to Jezero Crater. #CountdownToMarspic.twitter.com/dbU3dhm6VZ
— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) February 18, 2021
It did not take lengthy for netizens to start developing memes out of the moment. Take a look at some of the funny jokes and memes that NASA’s Perseverance rover landing on Mars inspired:
Wait a minute…#Mars2020pic.twitter.com/IMaWy128FK
— Roman Tkachenko (@_RomanTkachenko) February 18, 2021
BREAKING: NASA releases the initially photo from #Mars2020pic.twitter.com/qcigJxhcC4
— The Oatmeal (@Oatmeal) February 18, 2021
How is no one speaking about this #Mars2020 image?? pic.twitter.com/b8cBcWXmdp
— OTK (@OTKnetwork) February 19, 2021
Go MARS Rover. pic.twitter.com/k02SpkKmaH
— Colonel Kim Olson (@KimOlsonTx) February 19, 2021
First photo from #Perseverance Mars rover. pic.twitter.com/4HZ4MI8j9r
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) February 18, 2021
First image back from mars pic.twitter.com/65yIFrOx4D
— Rats (@RatsEveryHour) February 18, 2021
Over the course of quite a few years, Perseverance will gather samples that will be sent back to Earth for lab evaluation. Scientists hope to come across biosignatures embedded in samples of ancient sediments that Perseverance is made to extract from Martian rock. Two subsequent Mars missions are planned to retrieve the samples and return them to NASA in the next decade, in collaboration with the European Space Agency.
President Joe Biden, watching NASA coverage of the occasion at the White House, hailed the landing as “historic”.