{"id":12280,"date":"2020-08-07T00:44:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T16:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-rocketcams-show-mars-bound-rovers-ride-into-space\/"},"modified":"2020-08-07T00:44:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T16:44:13","slug":"video-rocketcams-show-mars-bound-rovers-ride-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-rocketcams-show-mars-bound-rovers-ride-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Rocketcams show Mars-bound rover\u2019s ride into space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NAkEOHhYuSo\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Video credit: United Launch Alliance<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cameras mounted on United Launch Alliance\u2019s Atlas 5 rocket show the fiery ride into space for NASA\u2019s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover after taking off from Florida\u2019s Space Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:50 a.m. EDT (1150 GMT) on July 30, kicking off a nearly hour-long ascent that culminated with deployment of the Mars 2020 spacecraft on a trajectory departing Earth and heading into the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket accelerated the Mars 2020 spacecraft, containing the Perseverance rover, to a velocity of nearly 25,000 mph, or 40,000 kilometers per hour, to begin the probe\u2019s six-and-a-half month cruise to the Red Planet. The Perseverance rover is due to land on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, to begin a mission collecting samples for eventual return to Earth, studying Martian geology and weather, and searching for signs of ancient life.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story for details on the mission.<\/p>\n<p>The video above begins with a view from a downward-facing camera on the Atlas 5\u2019s first stage, showing the 197-foot-tall (60-meter) rocket climbing away from pad 41 with some 2.3 million pounds of thrust from its kerosene-fueled RD-180 main engine and four strap-on solid rocket boosters.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlas 5 arced over the Atlantic Ocean to the east from Cape Canaveral, surpassed the speed of sound in 35 seconds, and shed its four strap-on solid rocket boosters just before the two-minute mark of the flight. Moments later, the Atlas 5 jettisoned its aerodynamic nose cone, along with a structure designed to absorb loads during the first few minutes of the launch.<\/p>\n<p>The first stage\u2019s kerosene-fed RD-180 fired for nearly four-and-a-half minutes before dropping away, allowing the rocket\u2019s Centaur upper stage to accelerate NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover on an escape trajectory toward Mars.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\ufeff Video credit: United Launch Alliance Cameras mounted on United Launch Alliance\u2019s Atlas 5 rocket show the fiery ride into space for NASA\u2019s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover after taking off from Florida\u2019s Space Coast. The Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:50 a.m. EDT (1150 GMT) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1874,724,2131,1392,2132,1630,1183,25],"class_list":["post-12280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-astrobiology","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-088","tag-centaur","tag-department-of-energy","tag-ingenuity","tag-jet-propulsion-laboratory","tag-launch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}