[ExI] How to watch Perseverance Mars landing on Thursday 18 Feb

[spike at rainier66.com]

...> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
Subject: [ExI] How to watch Perseverance Mars landing on Thursday 18 Feb

Show starts at 11:15 a.m. PST / 2:15 p.m. EST / 19:15 UTC

>...Landing is just around the corner ...Scroll down to find your favorite platform and enjoy the show.

<https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/watch-online/>

Good luck!   Landing on Mars is really difficult.

BillK

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Thanks BillK!  The school board arranged for the winter break to be during this landing attempt.  Our scout group is planning a Zoom watch party.  The Perseverance mission uses the same landing technique as the one that worked for Curiosity in 2012.  It worked that time.  Let's see if we can make it a twofer.

Regarding that whole parachute, four-thruster, lower on a cable to the surface procedure, we control freaks were very impressed when that all worked.  The controls guys who worked on that system had a big status symbol there, a much-respected ribbon on the chest.  They deserved it: that was one hell of a tricky sequence, unforgiving as cancel culture, so little margin for error.

Tomorrow!  Good luck to Planet Earth!

spike