LIVE: Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars

An hour and 10 mins to go. Fingers crossed all goes well




Mastcam-Z (Zoomable Panoramic Cameras)


SuperCam (Laser Micro-Imager)


MEDA (weather station)


SHERLOC (Ultraviolet Sectrometer)


PXIL (Xray Spectrometer)


MOXIE (produces oxygen from Martian CO2)


RIMFAX (surface radar)

a reply to: PhoenixOD

I'll wait for that part when the transmission is interrupted for a moment and everybody in NASA will made up an excuse.

But I really wish for a photobomb.

a reply to: Trueman

They have a standby rover in place somewhere up in northern Canada or in some desert just in case.

a reply to: PhoenixOD

JPL RAW



JPL 360

a reply to: Trueman
This rover has a microphone, so who knows what we will hear?
"Hey...get this thing off of me!!!" (in voice of Marvin Marian)

originally posted by: Zrtst
a reply to: Trueman
This rover has a microphone, so who knows what we will hear?
"Hey...get this thing off of me!!!" (in voice of Marvin Marian)

Rover Microphone : Svoooph phoooo (Welcome to Mars)!
NASA : Who farted ?

Here's to a successful landing..

Oo0oO0ooh im all excited

a reply to: Trueman
according to the movies...it is "AAACK AAACK"

Almost there!!! Woohoo!

Always like to hear the clapping in the control room.
Heat shield separation!

Ready for skycrane operation

Touchdown!

Imagine the relief they feel

Aaaaaand touchdown !!!

Well done everyone JPL/NASA

Good job NASA

And images already!

a reply to: PhoenixOD

Thanks for the thread ... just watched this with the family. Very fine!

First Image

originally posted by: rickymouse
a reply to: Trueman

They have a standby rover in place somewhere up in northern Canada or in some desert just in case.

No. Just no.

a reply to: PhoenixOD

so far away. a complex human made machine lands by itself on a foreign planet. crazy.