NASA Perseverance Rover Lands Safely On Mars | FULL LANDING SEQUENCE

NASA on Thursday successfully landed a new robotic rover on Mars as part of a mission to search for life beyond planet Earth.

Cheers erupted in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena, Calif., as the Perseverance rover touched down safely on the red planet just before 4 p.m. Thursday after entering its atmosphere at more than 12,000 miles per hour. The rover had been traveling through space since it was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at the end of July.

Perseverance is NASA’s fifth rover to land on Mars and will kick off a two-year mission roaming the planet’s surface in search of signs of ancient life.

Perseverance landed on the planet’s Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient lake that existed nearly 4 billion years ago.

The car-sized robotic explorer is equipped with a drill, a robotic arm and several other sophisticated scientific tools that will enable it to collect rock and dirt samples that will be picked up by a future mission to Mars and brought back to Earth.

“NASA works. When we put our arms together and our hands together and our brains together, we can succeed. This is what NASA does. This is what we can do as a country on all of the problems we have, we need to work together to do these kinds of things,” NASA chief engineer Rob Manning said following the landing.

The rover is also carrying a small helicopter dubbed Ingenuity, which is aiming to explore Mars by air. If successful, the aircraft will be the first of its kind to fly on another planet.

The mission was the latest of three that made it to Mars this month. Two spacecraft launched by the United Arab Emirates and China began orbiting the red planet last week.

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[agorillawithaplan]

I literally just woke up and I find out I missed a pivotal moment in the exploration of Mars

[leeniraukola]

Why do I always start crying when they start cheering? Humanity is awesome! We should put our energy into incredible things like this, instead of fighting over ridiculous things

[gesooi]

"I really did see a UFO..."....- martian child trying to convince his parents (rolling their eyes)

[rickkwan]

“Entry interface” starts at about 1:20:15.

[Jedicake]

Can you even imagine the feeling of working on this for several years and sending a small machine 120 million miles in Outer space landing safely on a rough planet?

[emilyvogt]

1:27:44- The relief and joy in her voice are palpable! I'm (happy) crying a bit right now and I'm really glad that I am. 🥲

[Kilo]

I must be in the wrong line of work. Ever time I see something like this it always brings tears to my eyes!! Good job everyone!

[mandersrain]

This is one of the most interesting times to be on this planet

[shrapnel]

Imagine complaining about ping and finding out people have to monitor the descent of Perseverance.

After Perseverence landed it deployed it's electric guitar, cranked up it's amp and blasted out The Star Spangled Banner.

[Zoomer]

Funny as they are doing this on Earth, Perserverence is sitting there going "HELOOOO!? IS THIS THING ON?"

"The speed of light is too slow"
-- Lord Helmet

[mpeezy]

We can send a rover to mars and back while we control it from Earth yet I can’t get cell phone service while standing inside of my garage.

[Blaze-]

I watched the whole thing and never in my life do i want to be a nasa scientist more than now

[ericrozsits]

This is such a pivotal moment for space exploration!

[cesar.k]

Dang, I wish I could've seen this live but I had to go to school.

[briano]

Great now everyone's gonna want to come to mars

[FlyingArchitect]

The woman making the mission update announcements did a fantastic job!

[vineethg]

Probably a amazing feeling to be in that room

[Dangic]

My Wife sometimes doesn't get text messages I send her when she is downstairs and I'm upstairs in the same house.

But I like these Mars images.

[AlexRodriguez-ooyu]

To save you time scrolling through the smooth brain commenters’ comments:

“We can go to Mars, but we can’t fix [insert issue of your choosing].”

“We waste billions of dollars on NASA instead of fixing [insert issue of your choosing].”

“Wow NASA can’t instantly send 4k pictures and video from a planet 300 million miles away? What a joke 😂”