NASA’s latest rover on Mars was launched into space last summer and beyond almost seven months of space travel it is now on its last descent to the Red Planet. Mars 2020 Perseverance the rover will land on Mars on Thursday, February 18, and you can watch everything live. Here’s how.
How to watch the Mars rover land
The Mars Perseverance rover is expected to reach on Thursday around 15:55 ET and you can find the official live coverage of the event starting at 14:15 ET on NASA TV and NASA website.
The agency will also host a live stream on YouTube (addition a feed in Spanish), and you can find additional coverage and comments on all his social media accounts:
Finally, you can tune in a 360-degree live stream of mission control via the NASA Propulsion Jet Laboratory YouTube channel or audio control for the mission on JPLraw.
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Social media event
NASA is also hosting it #CountdowntoMars Landing event on Facebook, where you can follow the coverage, connect with other rover enthusiasts, and participate in a question and answer with NASA team members.
What to expect with the landing
Perseverance is expected to take about seven minutes for its self-guided descent from the top of Mars’ atmosphere to the landing site in Jezero Crater – but it takes just over 11 minutes for the rover signal to reach mission control on Earth.
This means that until we know that perseverance is on the way, it will (already, hopefully) land safely on Mars. NASA will receive a radio signal when the descent begins and expects to receive another landing indicator just before 16:00 ET.