NASA’s latest Mars rover launched into space last summer and beyond nearly seven months of space travel it is now on its final descent to the Red Planet. The March 2020 Persistence The rover will land on Mars on Thursday, Feb. 18, and you can follow the whole thing live. Here’s how.
How to watch the Mars rover land
The Mars Perseverance rover is expected to land around 3:55 p.m. ET on Thursday, and you can find the official live coverage of the event starting at 2:15 p.m. ET at NASA TV and NASAs website
The agency will also host a live stream on YouTube (plus a Spanish-language feed), and you can find additional coverage and commentary on all of his social media accounts:
Finally you can tune in a 360-degree live stream of mission control via the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory YouTube channel or the mission control audio feed on JPLraw.
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Social media event
NASA also hosts #CountdowntoMars Landing Event on Facebook, where you can view coverage, connect with fellow rover enthusiasts, and participate in a Q&A with NASA team members.
What to Expect on Landing
Perseverance is expected to take around seven minutes for its self-guided descent from the top of the atmosphere of Mars to its landing site in the Jezero crater – but it will take a little over 11 minutes for the rover’s signal to reach mission control on Earth.
That means that by the time we know that Perseverance is coming, it has (hopefully) already landed safely on Mars. NASA will receive one radio signal when the descent begins and expects to receive one more indicative landing just before 4 p.m. ET