JUST IN: Perseverance rover has safely landed on Mars

[Massacure]

Source: CNN

The Perseverance rover just became NASA's fifth rover to safely land on the surface of Mars after surviving the "seven minutes of terror."

This is the most sophisticated rover the agency has ever sent to the Red Planet. It will gather data and look for signs of ancient life in a crater that once contained a lake about 3.9 billion years ago.




Read more: https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/nasa-mars-rover-landing-02-18-21/index.html

[hlthe2b]

1. Soooo proud of NASA!

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Safe landing! Great job!

[soothsayer]

3. Woot!

[bluestarone]

4. SO AWESOME!!!

[Jirel]

5. Watched that. That's a room of awesomely happy nerds!

It will be great to see pics in the coming days. Good job, folks!

[Aerator]

11. A lot of amazing young talent in that room .

[central scrutinizer]

17. A diverse group, inspiring

Several young women. (My daughter is an engineer)

[NRaleighLiberal]

25. I did too - found it truly moving!

[Thomas Hurt]

6. Wasn't even going to say/write anything didn't want to jinx it. Can't wait for the images!

[Yavin4]

7. Martians: "Dammit! Another one of those things just landed. Okay, everybody hide until it passes."

"Damn Earthers just won't stop. Just cannot take a hint. Nobody in the universe wants anything to do with you people."

[Massacure]

9. Haha, a interplanetary game of hide and seek!

[central scrutinizer]

18. Hope Bugs can rescue us

[keithbvadu2]

27. Bugs was not always successful.

[luvs2sing]

8. I'm sitting here sobbing over a robot.

Happy that it went well, but also so happy to see all the women in that room. Little girl Luvs2sing wanted to be in that control room. I’m glad some other women are living my dream.

[jovibennett]

12. Me to!!

Its been that kind of year that I'm crying over a rover landing on Mars. Well I do have a family member who works at the JPL but not on the mars side- on the satellites that we put up there.

[llmart]

15. FYI

NASA is approaching a point where the employees working on these projects is nearing 50% female,and women in the astronaut training program is also almost 50%. My son is an engineer at Kennedy Space Center and said it's almost 50/50 in the control room where he works (well, not right now but pre-Covid. They're mostly all working from home.).

[CaptainTruth]

19. Say hi to your son for me, I'm on Merritt Island just south of KSC.

[llmart]

23. Wow! Lucky you getting to see all the launches from your place.

It's really difficult to plan a trip down to see an actual launch (I live in Michigan) because oftentimes they're scrubbed at the last minute. But he's seen quite a few and he says it never gets old.

[luvs2sing]

37. I love it!

[chowder66]

29. I was sobbing too. I get blown away on the sheer brain-power that it takes to pull this off.

The stress is so palpable in that room that you can't but help to feel something for their incredible hard work. I mean the expense that goes into this (both human and financial) worrying that all of your efforts could be demolished, must be pretty intense.

[Ferrets are Cool]

35. +1

[VA_Jill]

10. My inner kid astronomer rejoices

the one that wanted to be an astronomer until she found out how much math was required....and ran into some supremely bad math teachers. But I sure do enjoy the pictures. And I'm glad all this has happened in my lifetime.

[BobTheSubgenius]

28. Speaking of "in a lifetime."

I remember seeing a Carson show not long after the Apollo11 mission. One of his guests was documented as the oldest person in the US, a very elderly AA gentleman.

He absolutely refused to believe men had landed on the moon, and claimed Carson was just trying to hoodwink an old man...but he said it with good humour. I can't remember if they ever convinced him, but I do remember this...

His earliest memory was of being brought from Africa on a slave ship? Can you IMAGINE??? Even putting aside the slavery aspect, his lifetime went from wooden sailing ships to landing on the moon.

And...from the Wright Brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk to landing on the moon was 66 years. That is astounding to me.

[Ferrets are Cool]

36. +1

[VA_Jill]

40. And I thought my grandma

born in 1885, had a miraculous lifetime, going from horse and buggy to men on the moon. But now I realize there were probably a number of people that managed that. She lived until 1981, dying not long after her 96th birthday which we celebrated with great fanfare. My daughter was very nearly born on her birthday and is more like her than can be imagined. She celebrated her third birthday with Grandma and remembers her surprisingly well.

[llmart]

13. Amazing feat!!! Go NASA!!!

The amount of work that goes into a project such as this is incredible. For what it's worth, I think Bridenstine was one of the better Trump appointees.

Can't wait for the Artemis project. Hope we have another "win" with that one.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Watched this live with everything else going on

Did a screenshot of one of the first images it sent -

[kimmylavin]

16. AMAZING

Watched it, bawling my eyes out.
So much intelligence, talent and hope in one room; so many others behind the scenes.
Moments like this make me feel okay about the human race...

[Silver Gaia]

21. I'm right there with you

on all you said!

[Silver Gaia]

20. Hubby and I watched it together.

We shouted and clapped when they announced touchdown. So exciting! And hopeful. I did find a few tears sliding down my cheeks. We needed this. We, collectively, need this. WOOHOO!!!

[Hassler]

22. Is there any doubt that if Chump was still in office

He would have been at Mission Control wanting to land Percy himself?

[CaptainTruth]

24. I watched it lift off in my back yard!

One of the things I love about living near KSC is watching all the launches, especially at night when the "rockets red glare" lights up the sky. The rumble is awesome too, it rattles things in our house.

I remember watching that one go up & thinking about how its payload would eventually land on Mars. It's a cool thing to watch.

[Massacure]

26. Thanks for sharing!

I have to admit, I'm a little bit envious.

[jayschool2013]

30. THAT is what patriots do for their country. nfm

[BumRushDaShow]

31. Had to go back to see when this originally launched and it went up on 7/30/20

Had grabbed some screenies back then too -







Can't wait for them to deploy "Ingenuity". That will be damn cool!

This is a mock-up of that little guy (weighs about 4lbs) -

[ybbor]

32. Agreed

That is gonna be so sweet!

I hear it’s gonna be delivering stuff for Amazon while it’s up there. 😂

But really, yes, extremely excited to see its footage. It should be pretty amazing.

[BumRushDaShow]

34. It would take about

8 months for drone-delivered take-out to get there but it might be worth it! They could put pizza near the re-entry shields and it'll be hot when it lands!

[JohnnyRingo]

33. Hooray!!

There was too much of a chance that we'd leave a billion dollar smudge on the planet.
There are some things that make me so proud of our country.

[COL Mustard]

38. Well Done NASA And JPL

Now, where's my Illudium Q-36 Space Modulator?

[calimary]

39. YAAAAAY!!! FANTASTIC news!

I love this stuff!

[relayerbob]

41. Absolutely LOVE it

Perfect landing, almost exactly where planned.

Congrats to NASA!

[NNadir]

42. That's nothing. Ted Cruz landed in Texas. n/t.

[wiggs]

43. My daughters and I were all bawling from our remote locations. Amazing! nt

[Xipe Totec]

44. That can't possibly be true; I haven't seen anything about it in the M$M

[electric_blue68]

45. So wonderful. Lots of crossed fingers, and teary eyed.

Been watching most of this stuff from Freedom 7 onward!

Oh, and I got to see Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins when
NYC held our Ticket Tape Parade for them.

It was beautiful to see the teams getting up clapping, cheering today! ❤️👍

[Mosby]

46. You can follow it on twitter

https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere

[denbot]

47. We still get shit done!

NASA rocks!

[Lasher]

49. Thank you President Biden!

[Marthe48]

50. Great job! Go NASA!

n/t

[Baclava]

51. Can't wait for more pics!

[Snoopy 7]

52. WOW

Just think how many people that could feed, cloth, house...

[Baclava]

53. Robots Rule!

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