All you need to know is right here at the NASA Science site, including mission overview, landing information, animations, a countdown clock, a link to watch online, and much more. You can also check out #CountdownToMars on Twitter for running commentary and insights from others observing the event.
(Photo: Perseverance / Patrick T. Fallon, AFP)
2 comments:
They made it. Makes my day.
Lots of steps had to go nearly perfectly for the multi-stage process to work. A heat shield, rockets, cables and a whole lot of very close timing are all vital. Failure or delay of any of hundreds of parts or processes, or a small error in code, and the whole project becomes a hybrid installation somewhere between interplanetary littering and abstract, or is it performance, art.
Well done. Americans can actually do something right.
Anon -- that was our reaction, too. Something to be proud of!
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