Science
Nasa’s Mars rover and the ‘seven minutes of terror’ – BBC News
The US space agency releases an animation to show how its Perseverance robot will land on Mars.
By Jonathan AmosBBC Science Correspondent
media caption”Dare mighty things”: Watch how Perseverance’s landing should proceed
The US space agency (Nasa) has released an animation showing how its one-tonne Perseverance rover will land on Mars on 18 February.
The robot is being sent to a crater called Jezero where it will search for evidence of past life. But to undertake this science, it must first touch down softly.
The sequence of manoeuvres needed to land on Mars is often referred to as the “seven…
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