Mars Rover sends new pictures from Red Planet after two-week blackout
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dailystar.co.ukMars rover has sent back new photos for the first time after the planet fell into a two-week blackout.The Perseverance, which is the size of a car, had to stand down along with other Mars spacecraft for around two weeks recently after the Red Planet slipped behind the sun from Earth's perspective.
In this alignment, which is known as solar conjunction, the sun can corrupt commands sent from Earth to Mars, making it too risky for NASA to take that chance.
But Mars has now come back into view for mission controls all across the world, including the one operating Perseverance, which is based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. "I’m back to work, parked between these two beautiful outcrops.
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