An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing safely on Mars.
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Among the many firsts of NASA’s Perseverance rover mission to Mars is the space agency’s first program in Spanish to broadcast a planetary landing live.
On Thursday, February 18 at 2:30 PM, NASA will broadcast “Together we will continue”, a program that gives viewers an overview of the mission to Mars and It will highlight the role that Spanish professionals at NASA have played in its success.
The show airs at 2:30 pm EST on the agency’s website and all your social media accounts in Spanish: Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
“Together We Persevere” will air ahead of Perseverance’s landing on the Red Planet, which will take place at approximately 3:55 PM EST.
The arrival of the Perseverance rover to Mars can also be seen live and in Spanish on YouTube: https://youtu.be/upLM5yGVKLg
The first program in Spanish of a historic mission
“I am very proud of NASA’s efforts to better share the excitement of the Perseverance rover landing with the nearly 500 million Spanish speakers around the world. “Together we persevere” is NASA’s first Spanish-language program for a historic landing on another planet and will demonstrate the diversity of the NASA team after Mars 2020 “, said Bhayva Lal, NASA’s acting chief of staff. “The name of the program recognizes that persistence and diversity are essential for NASA to successfully complete ambitious missions, such as next week’s persistence landing.”
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“Together we will continue” is presented by the Perseverance engineer Diana Trujillo.
Includes a pre-recorded section interviews with Spanish NASA scientists, engineers and astronauts.
Also there will be a children’s segment in collaboration with Sésamo.
Students and prominent Latin American figures from the worlds of entertainment, journalism and politics will also send statements of support.
Diana Trujillo will provide live English-to-Spanish translation and commentary during Perseverance’s arrival, descent and landing stages on Mars.
Perseverance’s mission on Mars
The Perseverance rover will look for signs of past microbial life, collect selected rocks and sediment samples for future shipment to Earth, characterize the geology and climate of Mars, and pave the way for future human exploration beyond the moon.
This is NASA’s fifth rover on Mars and, if successful, it will be NASA’s ninth landing on the Red Planet.
All landings on Mars are difficult, but NASA’s Perseverance rover is trying to land on the most challenging terrain on Mars ever attacked.
Perseverance also involves a technological experiment, the Mars Ingenuity Helicopter, which will try to implement the first controlled and powered flight on another planet.
For more information about persistence, visit: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020