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The cruise stage of Perseverance's journey has ended, and it has arrived at the Red Planet. Perseverance has just started what NASA refers to as the "seven minutes of terror." This is when the rover essentially has to land itself on Mars with no help from NASA, due to a one-way 11 minute time-delay.

The ground teams tell the spacecraft when to begin EDL (entry, descent and landing) and the spacecraft takes over from there — and mission control begins an agonizing wait.

The spacecraft hits the top of the Martian atmosphere moving at 12,000 miles per hour and has to slow down to zero miles per hour seven minutes later when the rover softly lands on the surface.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/world/live-news/nasa-mars-rover-landing-02-18-21/index.html

Here's a look at what happens during the final moments:

The Perseverance rover just became NASA's fifth rover to safely land on the surface of Mars after surviving the "seven minutes of terror."

This is the most sophisticated rover the agency has ever sent to the Red Planet. It will gather data and look for signs of ancient life in a crater that once contained a lake about 3.9 billion years ago.

It takes 11 minutes for the rover to send data from Mars back to Earth. In real rover time now, Perseverance is on its own and beginning its entry. However, we won't receive that data for a few more minutes.

What you need to know

Perseverance, NASA's most sophisticated rover to date, just landed on Mars.

This is NASA's first mission that will search for signs of ancient life on another planet. It launched from Florida at the end of July.

NASA only lands a rover on Mars about every 10 years. The last was Curiosity in 2012.

Source
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/world/live-news/nasa-mars-rover-landing-02-18-21/index.html
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I watched it's landing on BBC and and that mumu CNN
Meeehn see the way the scientists and engineers jubilated when the rover landed on Mars

Funny thing is that the rover landed 11 minutes before we saw it in real time

One small step for a robot
A huge step for mankind
I have a story to tell my grandkids

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Which one is oyinbo self, abeg if you don't have anything meaning to add shift abeg!

Watching their jubilations on CNN made me wonder how backward this nation is...



We are still struggling to provide electricity while they can already send a robot to go examine a different planet and observe it's parole here on earth... Without any visual



Nna eh, I go ask questions when I die

EmeraldKing7:
I watched it's landing on BBC and and that mumu CNN
Meeehn see the way the scientists and engineers jubilated when the rover landed on Mars

Funny thing is that the rover landed 11 minutes before we saw it in real time

One small step for a robot
A huge step for mankind
I have a story to tell my grandkids

But here we jubilate when electricity is restored after a blackout.

Number1benue:



Which one is oyinbo self, abeg if you don't have anything meaning to add shift abeg!

Sometimes I wonder if being stupid is something some of U are proud of.. How my comment is any of ur business is what I'm still trying to figure

If we blacks are humans then Caucasians are aliens.. we are not the same. All that we are today — and all that we ever hope to be — we owe to the white man... Even the Gods we serve is not our creation
smh.
Disgraceful race

We are the gods of the universe

Great

Texas lost power for few days and it was already like hell to them.. Let me not even bring Nigeria into this conversation..
No wonder my neighbor from USA can't do without putting on the generator 247.
He said bro, I will loose my sanity

These people keep achieving great feats and here, we still negotiate with bandits and compensate terrorists..
It is well

cool runnings

Lol... But someone on this site said it's impossible for a space ship to leave the Earth due to some magnetic fiery force fields encircling the Earth's dome??

However, does going to Mars stop humans from dying?

Interesting...

NewDelhi:

But here we jubilate when electricity is restored after a blackout.

Time heals every pain, Rome wasn't built in a day, Nigeria will surely get there.....

Exploring space is one wonders that still amazes me.

This Mars has really suffered at our hands

The next thing I want to see on Mars is people and not robots.

While my very beloved country is still struggling with stone age

Oyinbo just dey live their heaven here on earth while every single day for this godforsaken country just dey draw us one step closer to hell

Ok

When will buhari do his own ?

Bro calm down o, why u dey vex?

Number1benue:



Which one is oyinbo self, abeg if you don't have anything meaning to add shift abeg!

Awesome. This will help a lot on research and potential life forms on Mars.

Farki:
This Mars has really suffered at our hands

The next thing I want to see on Mars is people and not robots.

A trip to Mars currently take about 8 months at crazy speeds, twists and turns. No human can survive that. The Endurance rover that just got to Mars was launched in July last year.

We are still working on safer, faster means to getting people to Mars.

Also, we need to be sure about the availability of enough oxygen, proper gravity and the right atmospheric condition on Mars. We also need a safe way to transport any human on Mars back to earth.

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obonujoker:
Lol... But someone on this site said it's impossible for a space ship to leave the Earth due to some magnetic fiery force fields encircling the Earth's dome??

However, does going to Mars stop humans from dying?

Ogogoro is responsible for such ideas

Ok

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