NASA's Perseverance rover successfully lands on Mars!

Watch live as NASA attempts to land the Perseverance rover on Mars! Confirmation of a successful landing at Jezero Crater is expected around 3:55 pm Eastern (20:55 UTC), if everything goes to plan. The NASASpaceflight team will be providing live coverage of all of the critical events leading up to landing through to (hopefully) the first images from Perseverance on the Red Planet.

[rjb]

I'm 78 years old and I remember when Chuck Yeager first hit the speed of sound.. We have come a long way.

[blacknoir]

I cant wait to see the video of ingenuity flying in hd color

[dawnphoenix]

Awesome to see your handsome faces, gentlemen! I've spent so many hours with NASASpaceflight watching the SN launch/crash journeys, I feel like we're family. Keep up the excellent work, and thank you for all you do!

[starcrafterhd]

This was amazing. Congratulations to everyone involved. ♥️

[JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke]

Great coverage guys and congrats to the JPL team. So excited to see what perseverance discovers on Mars.

[MrJruta]

Lol imagine being a Martian living there, watching this thing fly over and land 🤣🤣🤣🤣. “Wtf was THAT?”

[greycritter]

Feels good to see progress, even with all the other advances in space exploration going on I have felt a void in my life since NASA retired the shuttle program.

[mikekemble]

love the commentary enthusiasm, nice one lads, from the UK

[josemuniz]

Congratulations guys, congratulations NASA, congratulations America, Congratulations Humankind.

[thorsbanhammer]

great stream guys! you always have the best one to watch even better then NASA

[garyswift]

lol, eleven minutes communications delay isn't great, but I think that if you sent a Roman Empire army out and had to wait months to hear how the battle went would be worse.

[TigreDemon]

Love it !

That's so incredible we're able to do that ahah

[nagahumanbeingzooofparticl]

Though I'll never go to mars at least my name is there. Thank you perseverance

[MladenPecovic]

"Jezero" is Serbian (and Croatian, Bosnian, etc) word for "Lake" / i don't know who is the explorer who named the crater a long time ago, but i'm glad he left a mark telling the world who he is, where he (she?) is coming from and who we are aside from the mainstream media picture of us. Whatever, nice seeing it in the context of such a feat! Kudos to the whole team. It is almost unbeleieveable that humanity is capable of performing something like this landing so smoothly and reliably.

[TheNateWalking]

I like this Steve Mars guy. Cool that he’s named after the planet.

[agamenon]

Congratulations on the outstanding job, Guys!!!

[unacceptablekrazykanuck]

Excellent NASA/JPL one giant leap for AI kind 👍

[arnoldsmith]

watched replay was very busy while landing

[bettyswallocks]

Fantastic project and congratulations on a successful landing. I understand that, once Percy had been successfully deposited and cables cut, the Skycrane was scheduled to fly off, presumably to crash (soft land?) onto the surface of Mars. Percy is scheduled to collect up to 2 rock and soil samples from the planet, which will be secured in tubes, to be deposited in a cache for later collection by another mission, loaded onto a small rocket, sent up to an orbiting collection vessel, which will then be returned to Earth.
Would it have been possible to install some additional experiments on the Skycrane, provide it with more fuel for a soft landing? In particular, was it considered to provide this mission with a sample return capability, using the Skycrane as a collector / launcher?
It seems a shame to haul the mass of the Skycrane all the way to Mars, only for it to do one job and then destroy itself.

[joshlodder]

This is an amazing occasion. Excellent example of Mankind's ingenuity. I hope our Lord God blesses Mars exploration like this which is only possible through him who allows it. Great coverage guys at Spaceflight! Keep up the good Work!