Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                              2021 February 19
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                           Mars Perseverance Sol 0
                 Image Credit: [3]NASA, [4]JPL, [5]Mars 2020

   Explanation: [6]After a 203 day interplanetary voyage, and [7]seven
   minutes of terror, [8]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 [9]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 [10]across the
   martian surface.

                      Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend
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    Authors & editors: [22]Robert Nemiroff ([23]MTU) & [24]Jerry Bonnell
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References

   1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2102/Mars_Perseverance_FLR_0000_0666952977_800.jpg
   3. https://www.nasa.gov/
   4. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
   5. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
   6. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200731.html
   7. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210216.html
   8. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
   9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_(day_on_Mars)#Usage_in_Mars_lander_timekeeping
  10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190217.html
  11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210218.html
  12. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
  13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html
  14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html
  15. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search
  16. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html
  17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
  18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html
  19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
  20. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=210219
  21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210220.html
  22. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
  23. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/
  24. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html
  25. http://www.astro.umd.edu/
  26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
  27. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html
  28. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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  30. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/
  31. http://www.mtu.edu/