NASA's Perseverance Rover will Land on Mars Today
It has been 8 long months since the Perseverance Rover left for the planet of Mars, and today will finally reach its destination on the red planet in search of new forms of life. The Perseverance Rover landing is scheduled for today at 3:55 EST, and you can follow the live streaming below. In total it will be about ten minutes of action as the descent of Perseverance will take place in the Martian crater of Jezero, an ancient river delta that bodes well for the new search for life. The robot will test the red planet's temperatures above 1,300 degrees and will have to slow down speed just enough to prevent impact with the ground. The last time this was attempted in 2016 with the spacecraft Schiaparelli, the speed upon arrival proved to be an issue. Last week, two other probes landed on Mars, the Chinese Tianwen-1 and the Arab Emirates Amal, and today NASA will put into practice the new landing with Terrain Relative Navigation technology. The new software will help Perseverance orient itself during landing and the 2km height will also detach the rear shield and parachute and the rover will lower as slowly. Perseverance will find itself hooked to a cable system called the Skycrane, which will slowly pull him to the ground.
Watch NASA's live stream of the Perseverance rover robot landing here:
