A series of hold-your-breath moments Thursday will determine the success or failure of NASA’s Perseverance mission when the agency attempts to land its fifth.
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NASA, Perseverance in epicly successful entry, descent, and landing at Jezero Crater, Mars
February 18, 2021
After years of hard work and labor, NASA succeeded in the most complex landing ever attempted on another planet.
Perseverance safely touchdown at Jezero Crater at an actual time on Earth of 15:43 EST (20:43 UTC) with confirmation of landing received 11 minutes 22 seconds later through the Madrid, Spain facility of the Deep Space Network at 15:55 EST (20:55 UTC).
Arriving at Mars, and the challenges thereof
Historically, there is now with Al-Amal, Tianwen-1, Perseverance’s successes a better than 50% chance of succeeding in placing a spacecraft at Mars, whether that’s inserting it into orbit or landing it on the surface.
A series of hold-your-breath moments Thursday will determine the success or failure of NASA’s Perseverance mission when the agency attempts to land its fifth.