“It gives me goose bumps every time I see it, just amazing,” said Dave Gruel, head of the entry and descent camera team.
After spending the weekend binge-watching the descent and landing video, the team at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, shared the video at a news conference.
“These videos and these images are the stuff of our dreams," said Al Chen, who was in charge of the landing team.
AdSix off-the-shelf color cameras were devoted to entry, descent and landing, looking up and down from different perspectives.
The lone microphone turned on for landing failed, but NASA got some snippets of sound after touchdown: the whirring of the rover’s systems and wind gusts.