Planet Mars is in the center of attention today because NASA's Perseverance robot is going to land at 20:00, and the American space agency is broadcasting the entire event live. Above you have a live transmission made by NASA so that the whole world can see how the spaceship containing the Perseverance robot lands on the planet Mars, the Americans sending there the first helicopter that will fly to a planet other than Earth.
Planet Mars it is not exactly friendly to man, or to missions of this kind, and NASA describes this landing as the 7 minutes of terror, a suitable description for what will happen. Due to the distance between the planet Mars and the Earth, the ship containing the Perseverance robot will land alone, all lasting 7 minutes, and NASA engineers will not be able to intervene during this time to correct any problems.
Planet Mars: LIVE VIDEO of NASA's Perseverance Landing
Planet Mars it is not part of the first landing of this kind made by NASA, the robot sent in 2021 by the American space agency going through a similar procedure. The current situation is still much more important because Perseverance has the mission to collect samples that will be sent from the planet Mars to Earth at a given moment, but it will also fly over the surface of the cosmic body to explore new unknown areas.
"The main problem is that the Martian atmosphere is too thick to ignore - or it will melt your spacecraft. On the other hand, the atmosphere is too thin to rely on parachutes – or your spaceship will crash. The Perseverance lander will lose much of its high speed by deploying a giant parachute, but then it will transition to rockets and finally, assuming all goes well, will culminate in a moving Sky crane that will slowly lower the rover Perseverance the size of a roped surface car."
Planet Mars it has an atmosphere that is too dense in certain areas, and there is a risk that the ship will literally melt, but there are also areas where the density is so low that parachutes are not useful. In this idea, NASA also mounted rockets on the ship carrying Perseverance on the planet Mars, so that they will reduce the speed of movement upon landing, and the ship will not be destroyed in an explosive impact with the surface of the planet.
Planet Mars will have the live broadcast starting at 20:00, but the landing itself will probably take place a little later, but even so, we will have enough to see this evening on the cosmic body.
