Photo of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing safely on Mars. Hundreds of emergencies must be executed perfectly and just in time for the rover to land safely on February 18, 2021. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech
Mark your calendars for live onshore coverage, press releases, live Q&A, live watch parties, student activities, and more.
NASA inviting the public to participate in meaningful activities and events as a group Mars 2020 A perseverance rover approaches approach, landing, and landing on the Red Planet, with a scheduled sailing ship for around 3:55 pm EST on Thursday, February 18th.
Live coverage and terrestrial coverage from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California will begin at 2:15 pm EST on NASA’s Public TV Channel and website, as well as the NASA App, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch, Daily Motion, and THETA.TV.
Among many of the first goals with this mission is the group’s first ever Spanish show for landing on a planet. On Thursday, February 18, at 2:30 pm, NASA will broadcast “Juntos perseveramos,” an exhibition that will give viewers an overview of the mission to Mars and highlight the role that NASA’s Hispanic professionals a success.
When it lands, the rover drops through the thin Martian atmosphere at over 12,000 mph (around 20,000 kph). Parachute and power rescue slow the rover down to about 2 mph (3 kph). During what is known as a skateboard movement, the descent rate lowers the rover on three cables to land quietly on six Jezero Crater wheels.
Perseverance is also testing technology – the Mars Ingenuity Helicopter – which will attempt its first controlled flight, on another planet.
“If there’s one thing we know, it’s that it won’t be easy to land on Mars,” said Marc Etkind, NASA’s Associate Administrator for Communications. “But like NASA’s fifth Mars rover, Perseverance has an amazing pedigree team and engineering mission. We are thrilled to invite the whole world to share this exciting event with us! ”
NASA offers many ways for the public to participate and keep up to date with mission information, mission information, and interaction opportunities.
Watch and Participate in almost
Connect with like-minded space enthusiasts, get a NASA Social badge, ask questions, and participate in other meaningful activities by signing up for a NASA Perseverance Rover Social Virtual event.
NASA also provides a meaningful guest experience to members of the public at the time of landing, with notifications of mission updates, reserved mission facilities, and a valid passport stamp available upon landing.
Stay connected and let people know you are following the mission on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Join the conversation, ask questions, and get answers online using #CountdownToMars.
Follow and select these accounts:
Twitter: @NASA, @NASAPersevere, @NASAMars
Facebook: NASA, NASAPersevere
Instagram: NASA
At 7pm EST on Tuesday, Feb. 16, NASA’s live Social Show will preview a landing day live through JPL YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter accounts.
You can also follow all the steps of entry, descent, and landing with this scene, and get a preview of the excitement with a new video:
All lying on Mars is awkward, but NASA’s Perseverance rover is trying to land in the most challenging area on Mars ever targeted. The stage of entry, descent, and landing, known as EDL, begins when the spacecraft reaches the top of the Martian atmosphere. Engineers have described the time it takes to land on Mars as “seven minutes of horror.” Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech
Opportunities for students, teachers, educators
Design, build, and land your own spacecraft – just like NASA scientists and engineers do. Join NASA’s Mission to Mars Student Challenge, where classrooms, informal education groups, families, and individuals can participate in week-long question and answer sessions with mission experts and submit student questions and work that could be featured at NASA broadcasts heading up to and on landing day.
The Mars 2020 STEM tool is also available, with stories about the students who named Perseverance and Ingenuity, opportunities to code your own Mars exploration games, and more.
Join scientists from NASA and JPL at a preparatory meeting of the Board of Space Studies of the National Academies and the Board of Aeronautics and Engineering on Wednesday, February 17, at 11:30 am EST to hear more about Perseverance’s trip to Mars’ Jezero Crater, Return NASA’s Mars sample, and the challenges the team has overcome. Participants include:
- Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator for science
- Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Department of Planning Science
- Bobby Braun, Mars Sample Return program manager at JPL
- Matt Wallace, deputy project manager, Mars 2020 at JPL
- Katie Stack Morgan, Mars 2020 project associate at JPL
Interactive experiences
You can also try a virtual photo booth that lets you stand next to the Perseverance rover, listen to the differences between sounds on Mars and Earth, and check out other interactive experiences on the mission’s website .
Sign up for Mars, again!
Perseverance carries three chips of size with 11 million signatures submitted by people all over the world. Anyone who missed out on Perseverance can sign up for their future Mars mission at:
https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/mars2020
Lights cities around the world
To mark the coming of the Red Planet Red Perseverance, the Empire State Building in New York will light up its red tower on Tuesday, Feb. 16, starting at sunset until 2 a.m. EST the next morning. In addition, the gate pylons of Los Angeles International Airport will glow red from sundown on Wednesday, Feb. 17, through the sunrise on Friday, Feb. 19. There are other sites in the United States that recognize the landings include select buildings on the horizon of Chicago, such as the Adler Planetarium. NASA is inviting cities across the country and the world to take part in “lighting up the red city. ”
Additional resources
News packs for the Landing rover Perseverance and Mars Ingenuity Helicopter are available and divers can dive deeper into the mission and science, as well as links to image and video resources.
The Perseverance landing tool provides additional details on all the activities planned for a landing week, as well as additional links to learn more about the rover and helicopter.
NASA Television Event Record
In addition to social media coverage, NASA TV will have a number of events following up to, including, and after landing.
Members of the public can ask questions on social media during the events using #CountdownToMars.
The following events are currently scheduled to be live (far east). Please check out NASA’s TV schedule for the latest updates:
Tuesday, February 16th
1pm – Press conference: Mission and technology engineering preview
3:30 pm – Press conference: Mission science overview
Wednesday, February 17th
1pm – Press conference: Mission landing update
3pm – Press conference: Discovering ancient life at Mars and in samples returned to Earth
Thursday, February 18th
2:15 pm – Live coverage on NASA TV Public Channel and online.
- In addition, a clean, uninterrupted feed of cameras from within JPL Mission Control, with mission-only audio, will be available starting at 2pm on NASA’s TV Media Channel and at JPL’s Raw YouTube channel.
A 360-degree live stream of Mars landing from within mission control, including a land report, will be available at JPL’s main YouTube channel.
2:30 pm – “Juntos perseveramos,” the live documentary in Spanish, will be broadcast on NASA’s Español YouTube channel.
Around 3:55 pm – expectation of a permanence capture on Mars
No earlier than 5:30 pm – Postlanding press conference
Friday, February 19th
1pm – Press conference: Mission status update
Monday, February 22nd
2pm – Press conference: Mission status update
To view press conferences and online report, visit:
http://www.youtube.com/nasajpl/live
A full list of online methods can be found at:
https://go.nasa.gov/3ojDWkj
More about the mission
The main goal of science of the Perseverance mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the detection of traces of microbial age. The rover marks the geology of the planet and the climate of the past, paves the way for human study of the Red Planet, and is the first mission to collect Martian rock and sediment and welded for later return to Earth. NASA’s subsequent missions, in collaboration with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and bring them back to Earth for miniature space. in-depth study.
The Mars 2020 mission is part of a larger NASA mission that includes missions to the Moon as a means of preparing for a human study of the Red Planet. NASA will establish a stable human presence on and around the Moon through NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration plans.