2,000 miles to go at still 10,000 mph. Wow!
Apologies if I missed this - how soon before we get visuals if everything goes right?
AFAIK, Just several minutes after 4 PM, Eastern Time.
For the benefit of us people in European time zones: that means in 20 Minutes?
According to this: pictures tomorrow, video on Monday.
I’m guessing there are airplane bottles of whiskey handy inside the control room.
make it make it make it make it make it…
According to Scientific American:
The very first thing Perseverance will do after landing is to fire some pyrotechnic devices, releasing the covers on cameras on board the rover. It will then take images in front and behind the rover and send those back to Earth via NASA’s orbiting Mars Odyssey spacecraft and Europe’s Trace Gas Orbiter. After that? A quick nap of course, “to recharge the batteries until the next day on Mars,”
Touchdown!
What an achievement!
Awesome!
woohooo!
We got pictures!
Howard Wolowitz, take a bow.
To quote whoever was saying this in the background at intervals on the live feed:
“yes yes yes yes yes”
Truly awesome. What a feat! Congrats to everyone involved.
OMG, Perseverance is… alive!
Very exciting - powered flight on Mars coming up too!
The thing that amazes me is landing on Mars is so complicated, the most reliable method would make Rube Goldberg look twice.
Hoorah !