Perseverence lands today around 2:55 Central time; livestream starts at 12:30 Central. Schedule : https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
So it's landed. How long before it 3d prints out a Starbucks and opens for the aliens? We're Murica afterall.
What do you mean??!!? They're the only user on the communication line with no government in sight to throttle anything.
What an incredible achievement! Kudos to everyone involved. It's carrying a drone, @Commodore. July 14, 2020 An artist's concept of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flying through the Red Planet's skies. Ingenuity, a technology experiment, will be the first aircraft to attempt controlled flight on another planet. It will arrive on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, attached to the belly of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. Ingenuity is expected to attempt its first flight test in spring 2021. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory built and will manage operations of Perseverance and Ingenuity for the agency. Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA. For more information about Ingenuity, go to: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter
