How to watch Perseverance's Mars landing: T minus 15 minutes! (2:15 pm ET / 11:15 am PT)

[lapucelle]

NASA Mars 2020 Mission Perseverance Rover Toolkit
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/

NASA Mission Website
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

How to watch

NASA will provide live coverage of the landing. The NASA TV broadcast from mission control kicks off on Thursday, Feb. 18 at 11:15 a.m. PT. Touch down in the Jezero Crater on Mars is scheduled for around 12:30 p.m. PT.

This won't be like a rocket launch where we get to see every detail as it's happening. We will get NASA commentary and updates, views from mission control, and hopefully some images not too long after landing. It will be a must-watch event for space fans.

Thurs, Feb 18
USA: 11:15 a.m. PT / 2:15 p.m. ET
Brazil: 4:15 p.m. (Rio)
UK: 7:15 p.m.
South Africa: 9:15 pm
Russia: 10:15 pm (Moscow)
United Arab Emirates: 11:15 pm

https://www.cnet.com/news/nasas-perseverance-rover-mars-landing-how-to-watch-the-epic-event-live/

NASA TV
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public

NASA Live: Official Stream of NASA TV

Other cool information
https://bit.ly/3bfr211

[DonaldsRump]

1. Thank you so much for posting this!

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[brewens]

2. I reconnected with a childhood friend. The first moon landing was the last time we were together.

My family moved about 100 miles away a few months before and they came to visit. Makes me want to watch on a 19" black and white TV.

[lapucelle]

3. I'm going to keep bumping for visibility until 2:15 .

It's going to be great.

[FakeNoose]

4. I'm not seeing any tv news network coverage

Nothing on CNN, MSNBC, or PBS.

Does anybody know if this is covered on cable TV?

[lagomorph777]

9. It looks like you have internet; it's streamed on Youtube.

Also, possibly your cable includes NASA TV?

[lagomorph777]

5. I've got the NASA JPL livestream pulled up on Youtube. NOW LIVE!

Waiting for it to start...

[lapucelle]

6. bump

[lapucelle]

7. bump

[lapucelle]

8. bump

[FakeNoose]

10. NASA-TV has just gone live at 2:15 p.m. est

[lapucelle]

11. Touchdown is at 3:55 ET...

...patience!

[lagomorph777]

12. Why is the time passing so slowly? It's like football minutes...

Every minute takes five minutes....

[lagomorph777]

13. Cruise stage separation confirmed 12:41 California time.

About nine minutes to "interface" which I believe means touching the atmosphere.

[lagomorph777]

17. Perseverance warming its jets now; entry starts in 6 minutes.

[lagomorph777]

19. Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter is ready to receive from Perseverance (and relay signals)

Maven is also ready.

[lagomorph777]

20. Heartbeat from Perseverance is healthy.

Not so sure about my own right now.

[lagomorph777]

21. Confirmation of entry interface.

[lagomorph777]

22. Parachute deployment confirmed

[lagomorph777]

23. Heat shield separated.

[lagomorph777]

25. Radar lock on ground.

[lapucelle]

26. ...

[lagomorph777]

27. Laser vision working, landing engines firing.

[lagomorph777]

29. Navigation complete, altitude 30 meters, skycrane deployed

[lagomorph777]

31. TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED!!!

[lagomorph777]

33. Lander still talking!

[lagomorph777]

35. First image received from the surface.

[Politicub]

14. So exciting!

[electric_blue68]

15. fingers crossed! 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

[krispos42]

16. it's happening!!!

[Ohio Joe]

18. Very Cool, Thanks!

[electric_blue68]

24. Parachute deployed

[USALiberal]

28. Radar lock on the ground!

[cbdo2007]

30. It's cold but I may have to get the telescope out tonight....

I know I won't be able to really see ANY surface details on Mars but it is awesome knowing the new rover is up there.

For those without a scope, Mars will be easy to spot around 7:00pm local time tonight as it will be just above the Moon.

[lapucelle]

32. TOUCHDOWN!

[electric_blue68]

34. Woohoo! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[electric_blue68]

36. First image shown!

[lapucelle]

37. It's nice to celebrate an amazing day.

[louis-t]

38. That was cool! Thanks.

I still get excited about this stuff.

[lapucelle]

39. I found myself crying in the best way possible.

[llmart]

41. I love your enthusiasm for this.

I think in another post I mentioned that my son is a NASA engineer. He didn't work on the Mars program but is working on the Artemis program (next moon landing). This Mars landing choked me up a bit too!

[lapucelle]

42. I actually thought of him when I heard the cheers after the touchdown.

Kudos to every one of them.

[Laelth]

40. That was awesome.

Congratulations NASA and JPL. Well done!



-Laelth