Posted on 07/30/2020 7:14:56 AM PDT by Moonman62
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover has launched on its epic mission to the Red Planet.
The rover launched into space atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 7:50 a.m. EDT from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The Rover lifted off right at the start of the mission’s launch window, which had been planned for when Earth and Mars are in perfect alignment. Lifted by 2 million pounds of thrust, it took the rocket about 5 seconds to clear the launch tower at Cape Canaveral.
"We're in touch with the spacecraft, everything is nominal," Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, told NASA TV shortly after launch. The successful launch, he said, was "like punching a hole in the sky."
The journey to Mars will take seven months. The rover is scheduled to land on Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb 18, 2021. The mission’s duration on the Red Planet’s surface is at least one Martian year or about 687 days.
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That's what my lady told me about our last date. So, good, I guess?
The UAE launched a Mars mission a few weeks ago on a Japanese rocket.
China launched one after that on their own rocket.
Today’s launch is the last for this window. The United States is still the only country to successfully land on Mars and we’ve been doing it for over 40 years.
Endeavor to Persevere.
I could see the launch from my backyard, in Ft. Pierce. The early in the morning launch (5:20AM) on June 13th, really lit up the sky.
Is this REALLY true? Is Mars deemed a Republican-only planet? Fitting, as some on the left believes there already is an American flag flying there.
So, this will be kind of like the early 1800's, with states deemed slave and free - 2100's, all Mars states to be Republican.
Very awesome. Can’t wait until they fly the mars copter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwdfdE6ruMw&feature=emb_rel_end
Cool NASA mission video here:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/overview/
Did they put a mask on it so not to infect Mars with the China Flu?
By the time of the first manned landing on Mars, there will be so many rovers there, the first thing built there will be a USED ROVER LOT......
They will be highly sought after by collectors...
*ping*
They will be highly sought after by collectors...
Tonight on Mars Barn finds...
Opportunity rover found in miners garage starts up after
fifty years.
Same here. They need to market little toys. :)
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