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How to watch Perseverance’s Mars landing on February 18 – EarthSky
NASA’s Perseverance mission lands on Mars on February 18. Here’s how to watch.
Landing on Mars is hard. So you’ll want to watch on February 18, 2021, when Perseverance (formerly called Mars 2020) hopefully becomes the first artificial object to land on the red planet since the Insight Mars lander in 2018. It’ll be the first rover since Curiosity touched down in 2012. Due to land in the Jezero Crater, just north of Mars’ equator, Perseverance carries a slew of science instruments to collect soil samples and search for signs of ancient life. It’s equipped with advanced audio-visual…
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