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Perseverance, NASA's most sophisticated rover to date, is expected to land on the surface of Mars on Thursday, Feb. 18.

Author: Andrew Coates (MENAFN - The Conversation) Following 'seven minutes of terror' after it reaches Mars' upper atmosphere, NASA's Perseverance rover is expected to land on the surface of the red planet at 20:55 GMT on February 18. This is incredibly hard to do , with only about 40% of missions succeeding. As a member of the team that built the European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin rover (we made the PanCam , the camera 'eyes' of the rover), which will set off for Mars next year, I will be holding my breath during the landing. There's so ...

NASA's Next Mars Rover Is Ready for the Most Precise Landing Yet Perseverance Guiding Itself Towards the Surface: The aeroshell containing NASA’s Perseverance rover guides itself towards the Martian surface as it descends through the atmosphere in this illustration. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land on Mars safely on Feb. 18, 2021. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image and caption › What to expect when the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover arrives at the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. With about 2.4 million miles (3.9 million kilometers)...

If successful, Perseverance will be NASA's ninth landing on Mars. First, it has to go through the infamous "seven minutes of terror."

Failure could take on many forms next week when NASA’s next-gen rover, Perseverance, reaches the surface of the Red Planet. Here’s what needs to go right—and how things could quickly go sideways—when Perseverance tries to make its much-anticipated landing.