NASA has successfully landed the Perseverance lander on Mars.
Fantastic achievement!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56119931
NASA has successfully landed the Perseverance lander on Mars.
Fantastic achievement!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56119931
Last edited by Pann; 2021-02-18 at 09:07 PM.
That's good to hear. I was so worried something would go wrong with the landing, and I can only imagine how worried the people working on this must have been.
"In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Paradox of tolerance
Watching these things never get easier. And this mission especially has so much riding on it, with it being the prerequisite of both the Sample Return mission and testing MOXIE to convert CO2 to O2.
If anyone is interested you can rerun a simulation of the landing here: https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/mars2020/...1:25.492+01:00
Already have the first images -
But real tho, we've got a few first images already - https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere/st...07436611956736
umm will it be in color or is that the color ?
Buh Byeeeeeeeeeeee !!
Isn't there a Chinese probe landing sometime soon too? These are exciting times.
Those are from the engineering cameras. There's another 19 cameras on the rover, and 2 on the helicopter. You'll get full color pictures soon enough!
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It's in orbit right now. Lander is scheduled to descend in May or June.
For the exact reasion, who knows? It's China after all, there's only so much they share. But it is just a part of the overall mission. It's currently attached to the scientific orbiter probe. I would assume it's hanging on there until they move that into a favorable orbit that allows for landing under their parameters. Getting into an actual orbit first before landing does provide the benefit of not coming screaming into the atmosphere at almost 20000 km/h, so the heat shield won't be facing as much of a task as Perseverance's did.
Descent captured from orbit: https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/...26055476649984
Rover hanging from the skycrane ~2 meters above the ground: https://twitter.com/BadAstronomer/st...25908344786944
There's 4k footage of the video above ^^^ on NASA's Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czj...ature=emb_logo
It is seriously impressive stuff! Although it was a little disappointing that there is no sound from the descent.
Here's a panorama:
"In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Paradox of tolerance
That is just so great to see that and to hear the relief and joy in the voice once it's successful. Beautiful.