Today the Mars Rover “Perseverance” will land on the Red Planet at 3:55 p.m. Eastern U.S. time (2:55 Chicago time, 8:55 pm London time). You’ll want to be online then, for the landing will be filmed live with several cameras and a microphone. NASA has a countdown page here, which links to all kinds of information about the Rover and the mission.
The live NASA videocast, however, begins over an hour earlier, at 2:15 p.m. EST, 1:15 Chicago time, and 7:15 p.m. London time. You can watch it live below. Be sure to set your alarm for at least 3:30 p.m. Eastern time so you can be there during the Seven Minutes of Terror. Watch at the site below:
Other places you can watch are these: NASA’s public TV channel, website, app, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch, Daily Motion or THETA.TV. There’s also a Spanish-language broadcast here.
Remember, if the landing is successful, we won’t see the live video until at least eleven minutes after touchdown, for that’s how long the signal takes to get from Mars to Earth.
Fingers crossed! If all goes well, we can puff out our chests and share a bit of pride in humanity—and science. (And don’t forget that science also gave us the Covid vaccines.)
h/t:Thomas
I’ll be watching it – wearing my Perseverance T-shirt!
I will try to see it! This goes into the “we need this right now” category of thoughts for the day.
Interesting tidbit. Evidently most mispronounce Jezero, the name of the crater where Perseverance is to land. Even many mission members don’t say it properly. It’s a Slavic word for “lake” and is properly pronounced YEH-zuh-doh, as this article explains:
https://www.space.com/how-to-pronounce-jezero-crater.html
Not d, but rather a rolled r. The video is correct. You are mishearing a rolled r as a d.
I wasn’t mishearing anything but quoting from the article I linked to.
I didn’t know about it. Thank you for the information .
(I must admit that I am justified, because now I am surrounded by a certain form of mental concrete, impenetrable to facts and by its nature not interested in the outside world)
NASA TV is channel 352 on DirecTV and coverage there starts at 1:00 PM Central (Milwaukee/Chicago) Time and runs to 4:00 PM. Mars-related programming (the only “pregame” shows I would watch) runs from 10:00 AM on.
I sincerely hope that this mission will give a definitive answer to whether there ever had been life on Mars. And if so, an looking forward to asking the first passing minister why the Holy Babble failed to mention such an astounding occurrence.
Perhaps close to definitively ‘yes’!
I cannot see how it could be even close to definitively ‘no’???
I wouldn’t be *too* hopeful. Paleontologists have to search for fossil beds far and wide, at least on Earth. And microfossils – even stromatolite macro sized – has abiotic confounds [except possibly microorganism acid tunneling in volcanic glass] that needs to be checked if possible – and hence sample return.
The sample return will be in 2031 earliest plan date – NASA, ESA and possibly others just started on that planning – so it will most likely be a while as well.
Looking for signs of life, any life, is not really like looking for fossils. After all, signs of life on Earth can be seen from orbit.
I wonder what will happen first, return of Martian samples to Earth or a robotic lander on Mars powerful enough to do all the tests we would otherwise perform on Earth.
At a time like this I wish I did believe in prayer. 😊 Anyway, will be looking for a way to watch and hoping for this outstanding scientific venture to begin successfully. Many steps to go.
Twenty minutes until Perseverance is supposed to land on Mars. 31 minutes until we find out if it did.
Watching… atmospheric entry in a few minutes…
Done!
Yay! Landed safely!
🚀 Excellent 🚀 Now go and persevere!
Amazing! Great to see all the team members in the broadcast afterwards too!
Just getting back to my window. Has any video been released since yesterday?
Just watched their press conference. No video yet but probably at their next conference on Monday. The best image today is from the rocket frame looking down at the rover suspended below it when it was just a couple of meters off the surface. Spectacular!
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25609/high-resolution-still-image-of-perseverances-landing/
Congratulations to – in order of Mars arrival – Emirates, China and now US! “Percy” is alive and well!
I hadn’t realised where the rover’s name came from until just recently:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseverance_(rover)#History