What an outstanding feat.
Many, many congratulations!
On Feb. 18, 2021, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover makes its final descent to the Red Planet.
A little more information:
Landed: Feb. 18, 2021, 12:55 p.m. PST (3:55 p.m. EST), (20:55 UTC)
Landing Site: Jezero Crater, Mars
Mission Duration: At least one Mars year (about 687 Earth days)
Main Job: The Perseverance rover will seek signs of ancient life and collect rock and soil samples for possible return to Earth.
As someone who watched the television non-stop in 1969 to see man’s remarkable achievement, NASA has been an organisation of considerable interest all my life.
At 10:56 p.m. EDT Armstrong is ready to plant the first human foot on another world. With more than half a billion people watching on television, he climbs down the ladder and proclaims: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.“
What an achievement!
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Amazing! Hope we find life.
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Wouldn’t that be fascinating, Susan. Life is surely not unique to this planet!
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Armstrong and Apollo 11….Yes it was truly amazing. I remember watching the landing and the first steps live on tv. So incredible it happened when it did and that Kennedy’s prediction came true within less than a decade. Hopefully this latest unmanned mission will prove very successful and yield loads of new information about the Red Planet.
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I totally agree with you, Margaret. It is a very exciting time for space exploration.
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Very cool images, but I wonder how’d they get those images of the Rover landing?
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That’s a very good question, Monika. I am sure NASA will have the answer.
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It was fun watching it live.
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I can imagine. We just happened to be out at the time. Oh well, thank goodness for recordings!
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