Mars Perseverance Landing

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The Perseverance (what an appropriate name!) rover is scheduled for landing this week on MARS! Anyone else going to be watching live on Thursday? I bet NASA’s YouTube stream will top 1 million viewers easily.

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I will definitly be.

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I’ll be watching with a group from The Planetary Society and our Society CEO Bill Nye. We had Planetfest 2021 this weekend and the landing on Thursday will be the last event

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@Computeforloot @knewman Science Briefing starts in 5 minutes.

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Preview Briefing in 5 minutes and Mars Sample Return briefing at 3pm ET: https://youtube.com/nasajpl/live

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What a fascinating vehicle. The cameras look amazing! Particularly thought Sylvestre Maurice’s segment of the science overview was interesting, he’s a great presenter.

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It’s almost time T-20ish minutes

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So excited. Watching NASA TV. We live in amazing times!

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Touchdown confirmed!! So cool. These folks sure are good at this.

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It’s mostly automated since it has a 12 minute light time. Yup that was great

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Blows my mind. Telemetry and images back already from over 200 million miles away. And my WiFi doesn’t work at the bottom of the garden :slightly_smiling_face:

Deep Space Network (DSN)

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I know we’ve got some photogs in the forum here, I wonder if anyone would try their hand at working with some of the raw image data from the rover? Might make for a cool HOP episode @ant_pruitt

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Absolutely amazing. What an amazing time to be alive.

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Absolutely incredible! We humans really are amazing creatures when we concentrate on science and technology instead of pissing on one another over trivialities

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Absolutely, very well said :+1:

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Here’s a link to raw image repository: Images from the Mars Perseverance Rover - NASA Mars

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Yes, we certainly do, and we are, all of us, quite amazing creatures when we put aside our petty and mundane squabbles and “reach for the stars!”

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Much better images are coming. Those were taken with the driving cam. And, in order to get them so quickly, I imagine they were very small.

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I heard they had some commercial Go-Pro style cameras rolling during the landing! Hoping they’ll be showing some of the hi-res imagery at this 15:00 conference in a few minutes (4) NASA Science Live: We Landed on Mars - YouTube