Take in the vibrant beauty of Perseverance's Landing, courtesy of some very talented Mars fans.

 

(NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill)

We're still talking about the Perseverance rover's flawless landing in Jezero Crater on Mars on February 18, 2021, a month later.

NASA has released more stunning imagery and footage of the landing in recent weeks, and since then, a global community of citizen scientists and image editors has sprung into action to improve and complement all of the amazing scenes captured by Perseverance's collection of high-resolution cameras.

This artificially colorized view of Jezero Crater, showing Perseverance screaming towards Mars's surface, is one of our favorites.

Kevin Gill converted the above image to full color using photographs taken by Perseverance's Lander Vision System Camera shortly after the heat shield was launched. In the bottom left of the photograph, you can see the heat shield crashing to the ground.

Kevin said on Twitter that this integrates about ten pictures taken by LCAM to bring in a wider field of view than his previous attempt. Kevin's Flickr page has the complete picture.

Kevin's previous attempt, as noted, is also a stunner:

OK, I had to try and colorize it myself. Also tried to linearize some of the fisheye effects.https://t.co/b84jbavPYU

Original: https://t.co/VzeKJJQGH0 pic.twitter.com/7rJ7a9awKl

— Kevin M. Gill (@kevinmgill) March 5, 2021

On the video side, Mathew Earl's re-projection of the amazing descent video onto the surface atop images from ESA's Mars Express Orbiter is one of the best visualizations we've seen of Perseverance's descent.

This depicts the entire context of the rover's landing, as well as a scale to show how big the features on the ground are.

One thing that struck me as unusual was the Martian terrain's resemblance to our own, Matthew Earl wrote on his website. "It's difficult to get a sense of scale as the lander approaches the ground because there's no familiar frame of reference to tell us how far away the ground is." This is what inspired him to start this project, which he describes in great detail on his website.

Raziel Abulafia posted a colorized version of the heat shield footage on Twitter, complete with appropriate music, in which you can see the heat shield falling and crashing.

Landing On Another World @NASAPersevere #Space

NASA Mars Perseverance Rover Lander Vision System Camera Imageshttps://t.co/qcGFAB0YZ2

Sound Of Marshttps://t.co/SLMrVVawpk

Musichttps://t.co/uNVf1Roe2x pic.twitter.com/V8fS6KwyI8

— abulafiana (@abulafiana) March 10, 2021

These are just a few examples of the unbelievable work done by amateurs around the world.

With all of the incredible imagery the Perseverance rover is sending back, we're anticipating even more amazing work from all of the imaging editing enthusiasts around the world.