Tag: Mars 2020

  • What to expect during Perseverance’s landing on Mars

    —

    by

    starpathwp-production
    in

    This illustration shows the events that occur in the final minutes of the nearly seven-month journey that NASA’s Perseverance rover takes to Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s nuclear-powered Perseverance rover is set to arrive at Mars on Thursday with a make-or-break entry, descent, and landing. The rover will execute the arrival autonomously, while engineers and scientists…

  • Live coverage: Perseverance rover lands on Mars

    —

    by

    starpathwp-production
    in

    Live coverage of the mission of NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter at Mars. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”NASA TV”] [tabby title=”Mission control clean feed”] [tabbyending] NASA TV’s live coverage of the Mars 2020 mission’s arrival at the Red Planet begins at 2:15 p.m. EST (1915 GMT).

  • Mars rover ready for riskiest part of $2.7 billion mission

    —

    by

    starpathwp-production
    in

    Artist’s illustration of the Perseverance rover’s heat shield under the mission’s supersonic parachute. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Perseverance rover is racing toward Mars for a daring high-speed plunge into the Red Planet’s atmosphere Thursday, ready to use a heat shield, a supersonic parachute, and braking rockets for a pinpoint touchdown on a dried-up river delta that…

  • Perseverance Mars rover on course for landing Thursday

    —

    by

    starpathwp-production
    in

    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of the Perseverance rover on Mars. Credit: NASA A week after two space probes from China and United Arab Emirates slipped into orbit around Mars, NASA’s $2.4 billion Perseverance rover, by far the most complex and ambitious of the three, will plunge into the red planet’s…