<span style="color: #222222;">After safely landing on the surface of Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover has sent back never-before-seen pictures. The rover sent some beautiful postcards of its landing site.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">The first image shared during a NASA press conference last night was &quot;exhilarating&quot; for the team when they received it. It shows the robot heading down to the ground to make its landing. It was acquired by the rocket cradle that placed the vehicle on the surface.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">Perseverance has a large amount of data in its memory banks which it is gradually offloading to Earth. Among other pictures is a view from a satellite that captures the rover in the parachute phase of its descent.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">Perseverance landed about 1.2 miles away from the river delta feature within Jezero Crater. The rover will spend the next two years investigating the crater and delta in the search for evidence of ancient life that may have existed when Mars was a more habitable place.</span><br />