Perseverance’s Landiversary: Celebrating a Year of Exploration with NASA’s Mars Rover

It’s been one busy year for NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover! Join us in the Mars Yard at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as we celebrate the one-year anniversary of the robotic explorer's historic Mars landing. We’ll be chatting with members of the Mars 2020 team who helped make the moment happen, and they’ll tell us what’s next for the rover.

Speakers:
Swati Mohan – Perseverance guidance, navigation & control operations lead
Rachel Kronyak - Perseverance science operations systems engineer

Hosted by:
Raquel Villanueva - video producer and commentator

Please note that audio falls off between 33:58-34:45. The transcript for this portion is below.

Rachel Kronyak: "(The other rovers) are all really far away from Perseverance, so we communicate with the rover using our fleet of satellites that orbit around Mars as, sort of, communications relays. So sometimes we can actually send commands directly to the rover – we call that Direct From Earth – but most of the time when we’re beaming data from Perseverance back to us here on Earth, we use those satellites as a communications relay."

Raquel Villanueva: "And Flynn on YouTube wants to know, 'Has Ingenuity continued to scout for Perseverance?'”

Rachel Kronyak: “Yes, so like we talked about earlier, Ingenuity is in this really exciting phase that’s called our operations demonstration. So we have been using it as a scout to sort of look at these new terrains that we eventually hope to go to with Perseverance. There are also some areas that are too dangerous for Perseverance to drive through, so that’s why we really like using Ingenuity to sort of get a feel for what these terrains look like from the helicopter’s view."

[lambeausouth]

Thanks for hosting these videos folks! NASA and all it's space partners are awesome 😎

[ericdancaido]

Sending love to Perseverance <3♡♡♡♡♡, And also, NASA, JPL

[hoodyk]

Its crazy that its been a year, i tried to keep following the info for awhile but its been pretty rough for awhile so its been difficult. Still such an amazing thing humans achieved!

[usercarpenter]

Outstanding, looking forward to the Mars samples pickup mission.

[domoredujordan]

Holy crab, when you see her standing next to the mockup...a drone thing lowered THAT to the surface of Mars with precision and its own thrusters. Crazy.

[kasiviswanadhsripada]

Thanks NASA for the video. informative! looking for more videos like this.

[ilonabenedek]

MISSION IS POSSIBILE , WITH LEADERSHIP AND ANY NATIONS ENGINEERING SUPPORT FOR CONTINUE DEVELOP IN THESE GREATHES WORKSTATION-SELF SECURE SERVICE.THANKS SO MUCH.

[thomasboomer]

Around 34 the audio cuts out. Love the two ladies. Their knowledge and expertise inspires us all.

[sandeshtidake]

Love to communicate with Nasa Scientists Thanks for Such Precise Knowledge

[Marklek]

Very interesting discussion. I am really enthusiastic with how well Ingenuity has been working out. But I couldn’t help noticing towards the end that Rachel was developing a pretty good sunburn on her arms compared to the beginning of the broadcast. I hope she wasn’t in too much pain after this. #moreSPF

[replica]

to surrect planets is how to live in a universe - mars belongs to life

[Lion_McLionhead]

Blondie looks like Trinity. She needs to save Neo.

[heleenpretorius]

You will find nothing. You are waisting your time and money. Rather give it to people who need it.

[Abell_lledA]

Narrative of Self is the result of a feedback loop between “Separate Self” & Cosmos—🎈

[victorapalkow]

✋😀🤚 YAY ⭐Perseverance⭐ Rover⭐ Landing⭐ Animations⭐Ingenuity Helicopter Arrive at Mars⭐Welcome!⭐✋😀🤚 🔭🪐🛰🚀🛸⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🤗💙

[highclouds]

#AskNASA What ancient civilizations or organisms are you guys expecting to be there on Mars? Any guesses?

[Svetlana_Yugoslavna]

In Russia, I read, another program is being developed about Mars: to create an artificial atmosphere on Mars.
Well, well done to you!

[RG-odri]

Repeating the same lack of science wows all of us!