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Image001.png This screen capture shows the first image received from NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover following its successful landing on the Red Planet on...

The team at Hampton's NASA Langley Research Center oversaw much of the research for the entry, descent and landing portion of the Perseverance mission.

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance will make its descent onto the red planet on Thursday, but there are a few hurdles to cross before it can land.

When NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, a robotic astrobiology lab packed inside a space capsule, hits the final stretch of its seven-month journey from Earth this week, it is set to emit a radio alert as it streaks into the thin Martian atmosphere.

NASA Offers Opportunities for Media to Engage with Mars Perseverance Rover Landing News provided by Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will host virtual news briefings, live shows, and activities the week of Feb. 15 to discuss events surrounding the landing of its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. Landing on the Red Planet will occur about 3:55 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 18. Live landing commentary will begin at 2:15 p.m. on NASA Television, the agenc...

February 19, 2021 at 8:23 am NASA’s Perseverance rover has safely landed on the surface of Mars. The rover touched down in Jezero Crater on the Red Planet at 20:55 UTC on 18 February 2021. Advertisement The successful landing was the culmination of a 203-day journey from Earth that saw it travel a total of 472 million km. The Perseverance Mars rover team look on in Mission Control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the mission’s first images of the Red Planet arrive. Credits: NASA/B...

Copy to Clipboard An illustration depicts the Perseverance rover operating on Mars (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Space exploration is expected to ramp up further in 2021, and Mars promises to be a hot destination. Spacecrafts from three programs — Mars 2020 (US), Tianwen-1 (China), and Hope Probe (the United Arab Emirates or UAE) – are expected to enter the planet’s orbit in February, hoping to start new chapters of exploration there. Here’s what is known so far about each mission.  M...

NASAs Perseverance Rover 22 Days From Mars Landing Perseverance’s Stages of Descent (Illustration): This illustration depicts the some of the major milestones NASA’s Perseverance rover will go through during its seven-minute descent to the Martian surface on Feb. 18, 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image and caption › Seven minutes of harrowing descent to the Red Planet is in the not-so-distant future for the agency’s Mars 2020 mission. NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover missi...