NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, successfully landed on the red planet’s surface last Thursday. It has been approximately seven months since the spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

On Monday, NASA released video and audio taken by Perseverance during its landing, which had never before been filmed by a rover. The landing process is commonly called the “seven minutes of terror” by scientists due to the challenge it presents: Because of signal delays, once the rover enters the planet’s atmosphere it must complete the descent and landing on its own.

Perseverance touched down on Jezero Crater, a landform thought to have once held water — and possibly life.

The Mars 2020 mission builds on the discoveries of NASA’s Curiosity rover. In 2013, researchers found that a rock sample collected by Curiosity from Mars’ Gale Crater contained “key chemical ingredients for life” — a hint that the environment could have hosted microorganisms.

Perseverance aims to find signs of past life where those chemicals are detected. The rover will gather and store rock and soil samples from the crater that may be brought back to Earth for analysis. Additionally, it will test technology that may one day allow for exploration of Mars by humans.

Watch the video of Perseverance’s landing below: