Eldorado Posted February 16, 2021 #1 Share Posted February 16, 2021 NASA is inviting the public to take part in virtual activities and events as the agency’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover nears entry, descent, and landing on the Red Planet, with touchdown scheduled for approximately 3:55 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 18. Live coverage and landing commentary from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California will begin at 2:15 p.m. on the NASA TV Public Channel and the agency’s website, as well as the NASA App, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch, Daily Motion, and THETA.TV. -- At 7 p.m. EST Tuesday, Feb. 16, a NASA Social live show previewing landing day will stream live via the JPL YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter accounts. You also can follow every step of entry, descent, and landing with this visualization, and get a preview of all the excitement with a new video. Full story at NASA: Link 15:55 Eastern Time (ET) is 20:55 GMT. 19:00 Eastern Time (ET) is 00:00 GMT. SavvyTime - Time Zone Converter 2 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudSix Posted February 18, 2021 #2 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Hope they find some exciting material there, good luck little buddy! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.A.T.1961 Posted February 18, 2021 #3 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Less than 2 hours to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.A.T.1961 Posted February 18, 2021 #4 Share Posted February 18, 2021 OK, it was the video coverage starting in 2 hours. Another 1.5 hrs to landing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.A.T.1961 Posted February 18, 2021 #5 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Apparently the dish at Green Bank West Virginia was thought to be out of action due to weather but they have managed to get it running and it will be in use and pointed at Mars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.A.T.1961 Posted February 18, 2021 #6 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Factoid - Mars is currently 204,500 km from Earth. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.A.T.1961 Posted February 18, 2021 #7 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Well done NASA, two out of two for the rocket sledge landing system. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon the frog Posted February 18, 2021 #8 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Nice, that's awesome ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartan max2 Posted February 18, 2021 #9 Share Posted February 18, 2021 I love listening to the nerd NASA people talk about everything. They are so geeked about about this success. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toast Posted February 18, 2021 #10 Share Posted February 18, 2021 29 minutes ago, L.A.T.1961 said: Factoid - Mars is currently 204,500 km from Earth. 204,500 Million km. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toast Posted February 18, 2021 #11 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.A.T.1961 Posted February 18, 2021 #12 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Targeting looks good, it must be close to chosen site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedutchiedutch Posted February 18, 2021 #13 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Yes I saw this live on TV minutes ago. How cool to watch and how neat it would be to be part of that team. They should be very proud of themselves. Excellent and well done 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.A.T.1961 Posted February 18, 2021 #14 Share Posted February 18, 2021 1 minute ago, L.A.T.1961 said: Targeting looks good, it must be close to chosen site? Good job they were not using my original distance figure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazzard Posted February 18, 2021 #15 Share Posted February 18, 2021 That was epic awesomeness Now lets find the little cretters that used to live there! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Raven Posted February 18, 2021 #16 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Successful landing. Congrats!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rashore Posted February 19, 2021 #17 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Cheers to our little rover to Mars.. may your systems last long, your components be good. Hope you find friends out there, I know there's a couple or few. Hope we humans can send another friend or two up there to share Mars with you. If not, be patient and we will watch what you do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Desertrat56 Posted February 19, 2021 #18 Share Posted February 19, 2021 My grandson's teacher put it on the zoom for the whole class. I think he was the one who asked her if they could watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter B Posted February 19, 2021 #19 Share Posted February 19, 2021 24 minutes ago, Desertrat56 said: My grandson's teacher put it on the zoom for the whole class. I think he was the one who asked her if they could watch it. Excellent! You taught him well! I remember watching the little Sojourner rover roll off the Pathfinder lander back in 1997, live at the Canberra Deep Space Tracking Station. That was pretty spesh. Congratulations to the team for their success here, and hopefully many more successes to come. (Great to see the landing didn't share the fate of these spacecraft! [amusing YT video]) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon the frog Posted February 19, 2021 #20 Share Posted February 19, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, thedutchiedutch said: Yes I saw this live on TV minutes ago. How cool to watch and how neat it would be to be part of that team. They should be very proud of themselves. Excellent and well done Yep very proud but they were so full of stress before knowing that all was a good landing, probably a pain waiting for the result ! Hat off to them ! Edited February 19, 2021 by Jon the frog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedutchiedutch Posted February 19, 2021 #21 Share Posted February 19, 2021 4 minutes ago, Jon the frog said: Yep very proud but they were so full of stress before knowing that all was a good landing, probably a pain waiting for the result ! Hat off to them ! Yes i guess it's the build up and the stress of hoping that everything will go as planned. But beautiful to see the release of stress and emotional discharge when the mission is successfully completed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyperionxvii Posted February 19, 2021 #22 Share Posted February 19, 2021 I did! Fantastic! Congrats to the whole team! Can you imagine how nervous they must have been, one mistake and you've lost years of work and you're not getting a second chance for that many more? Talk about a high pressure job. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kartikg Posted February 19, 2021 #23 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Wow they did it again, Congratulations to Nasa. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatetopa Posted February 19, 2021 #24 Share Posted February 19, 2021 So cool, I remember several of my profs having satellite data coming back from then moon back in the 70's. It was a very big deal. Now this is amazing for humanity too, there are three probes now on Mars I believe, US, China, and a UAE probe. Hopefully we can all share all of the data. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted February 19, 2021 #25 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Congrats to NASA. An amazing feat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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