So you follow the Mars landing in the livestream
No time right now?
The Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity mini-helicopter are due to land on Mars on Thursday evening. You can follow the Mars landing of the NASA Mars 2020 mission in the livestream.
Mars is not just a place of longing for SpaceX boss Elon Musk. Nasa and the space agencies of China and the United Arab Emirates are currently targeting the so-called red planet. After the Arab Mars probe Hope reached its destination last weekend and entered the orbit of Mars, the NASA Mars 2020 mission is preparing for a Mars landing.
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Mars rover brings microphones to Mars
On Thursday, February 18, 2021, around 9:50 p.m., the time has come. Then she should NASA spacecraft move towards the surface of Mars – and drop off the Rover Perseverance. The Ingenuity mini helicopter is also on board the probe. During the mission, Perseverance is to place microphones on Mars for the first time. Together with the European space agency Esa, a mission is also being carried out to bring samples from Mars to Earth, like Spiegel Online reports.
You can follow the Mars landing on several channels in the live stream. The transmission offered by NASA is available on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and the NASA app, among others. In addition, NASA also offers a 360-degree live stream via YouTube and an uninterrupted transmission of the Mars landing. An overview of the offers is available on this NASA page.
Mars landing as a live stream on Youtube
If you want a scientific classification and more information about the Mars mission and the rover landing in German, you can also get one from the Planetarium Foundation offered stream on Youtube look at. There the challenges during landing, the goals of the Mars mission and the instruments on board the space probe are explained with the help of animations and visualizations. Shortly before the expected landing, the NASA live stream is switched to.
NASA’s Mars mission was launched from Earth in July 2020. The six-wheeled Mars rover alone cost around 2.5 billion US dollars and eight years of development and construction. The device weighs around 1,000 kilograms, is three meters long and has seven scientific instruments, 23 cameras and a laser. Also in July of last year, the Chinese Mars probe Tianwen-1 set off on its own Mars mission. As part of this, a Chinese rover will land on Mars in May.
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