The Mars Perseverance Rover is scheduled for its landing on Mars on Feb 18. Here is a simple one page description on how it’s going to do it. The sequence will take 7 minutes, too short for NASA to monitor since it takes over 10 minutes for communications to reach back to earth. Enjoy.
Mars Perseverance landing technique
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I check every day to see where Perseverance is, how fast it's going and how many miles before reaching Mars. Ed
Where do you see this info at?
Follow NASA's Perseverance Rover in Real Time on Its Way to Mars – NASA Mars Exploration
A crisply rendered web application can show you where the agency's Mars 2020 mission is right now as it makes its way to the Red Planet for a Feb. 18, 2021, landing.
mars.nasa.gov
is this the one they micro engraved people's names on? , cuz I signed up for that..
That must be the one. It’s landing at Jezero crater.
The Vulcans will watch this and marvel at how primitive we are.
23,600,000 miles to go
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Its nice they are looking to preserve the surface of Mars. I hope they have a recycle can next to the usual waste basket.
23,270,000 miles to go
So cool. I just spent a good while playing with the solar system there before watching the sim of the landing. I love this stuff.
Mike B
Mike B
You know, if I was sitting at the table when some young engineer proposed this, I would have said “ so what’s wrong with using air bags like Pathfinder in '97. "
That was an awesome clip. Thanks for the post.
That was an awesome clip. Thanks for the post.
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I guess the module that lowered the rover flies directly to Fred Sanford’s Mars yard for recycling.
Yes, here is the clip for that one. It was the Pathfinder mission in 1997 that used the air bags.
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I am checking its location with this app https://eyes.nasa.gov/
The landing is planned for 3:55 PM E.T. this Thursday, Feb 18. This is not like the Daytona 500, it will happen on time , (or else there will be a crash similar to the one 18 minutes into the race. ) Fingers crossed.
Yes, but it'll take 20 minutes for communication from Mars to reach Earth.
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