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"Perseverance": This is what the disengagement maneuver should look like
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Something different than Netflix: After a month-long flight, the NASA rover "Perseverance" is due to land on Mars on Thursday at around 9:50 pm (CET).
This will be accompanied by a YouTube livestream, announced the Planetarium Berlin Foundation and the Society of German-speaking Planetariums on Monday.
The stream can be accessed at this link.
Experts will report on Mars and previous projects in the broadcast on Thursday and explain the current US mission, it is said.
Shortly before the expected landing, a switch to the NASA live stream is planned.
In this way, the landing maneuver can be followed and you can be there live when the first images are sent back to earth.
The mission was launched from the Cape Canaveral spaceport in July 2020.
"Perseverance" is the "largest, heaviest, cleanest and most technically sophisticated six-wheeled geologist who was ever launched into space," says the US space agency Nasa.
The rover, which cost around $ 2.5 billion, had been designed and built for around eight years.
The vehicle, which weighs around 1,000 kilograms and is three meters long, has seven scientific instruments, 23 cameras and a laser on board.
For the first time, with “Perseverance” microphones are sent to Mars, just like a small helicopter - and for the first time, samples are to be brought back to Earth from Mars in a mission developed jointly with the European space agency Esa.
In July 2020, the Chinese Mars probe "Tianwen-1" was also launched.
In May, "Tianwen-1" will then land its own rover, which will explore Mars for around three months.
And a few days ago the United Arab Emirates' Hope probe reached its orbit on Mars.
The first interplanetary space mission of an Arab state should give the modernization of the Emirates a boost.
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