Watch NASA’s Perseverance Rover Land on Mars!
Why Space Exploration Stack Exchange recommends it
Space Stack Exchange users link it as primary-source footage of the Perseverance landing, citing specific timestamps for callouts, the sky crane flyaway and EDL commentary.
Recommended by 2 people across 1 different months, 2021 to 2022.
What it is
NASA's full live broadcast of the Perseverance rover's Mars landing on 18 February 2021, including commentary from Mission Control at JPL during entry, descent and landing. It runs about two hours and shows the control room reacting to the touchdown signal and explaining the sky crane maneuvers.
Cited in 2 Wikipedia articles, including Gunshow (webcomic), Joint Polar Satellite System.
What people said
Recommends KarlKastor · 2021-02 · Space Exploration Stack Exchange · on “The "NASA's Eyes" virtual broadcasting of Perseverance's Mars arrival”
I found a time acceleration bar in the NASA Eyes orrery by quadruple clicking on the time. When you move forward to the time of landing, it doesn't show any stage separation and instead just shows the spacecraft moving inside of Mars. But this page will show a visualization: [LINK] On the day of the event itself, the timeline may be slightly different, but this represents the expected set of events using the best available engineering data. [...] Once the Perseverance rover lands on Mars, you can click the “Replay” button to start again at the beginning. If you are watching it live on February 18th, 2021, a button will say "LIVE” [...] Also you might rather just watch the official YouTube li
Recommends Manny · 2021-02 · Space Exploration Stack Exchange · on “The "NASA's Eyes" virtual broadcasting of Perseverance's Mars arrival”
Maybe this scheduled broadcast event will show those details? You probably know already! The video will be available to rewind after the live broadasting [this video]
Cites Phiteros · 2021-02 · Space Exploration Stack Exchange · on “What are the rules for callouts during mission landings?”
I remember hearing at one point that in the control room at JPL, only the GN&C Lead [LINK] is allowed to make the announcement for touchdown. It's because they don't want someone prematurely (and erroneously) announcing success or failure. During the landing of Perseverance, if you watch closely, you can actually see this happening. Starting from this timestamp [this video] , at about 1:40:30, you can see everybody perk up and begin fidgeting and looking at the callouts person. They're all seeing the touchdown signal, but they're waiting for her to verify and announce it before celebrating. Unfortunately, I cannot find any references that back this up, try as I might. I may have heard it from a g
Cites Phiteros · 2021-03 · Space Exploration Stack Exchange · on “Could the flyaway of the Curiosity/Perseverance skycrane be aimed in a particular direction?”
Yes, the skycrane was able to fly in a certain direction. Once the rover was on the surface and the bolts were cut, the skycrane was programmed to angle itself forwards or backwards, whichever way was closer to North, and fly that way. This was to ensure that the rover wouldn't be damaged by the rockets going over it. You can hear Al Chen, the EDL lead, explain it during the landing livestream here [this video] (timestamp 42:34).
Cites BrendanLuke15 · 2022-03 · Space Exploration Stack Exchange · on “How long did the plasma blackouts of Perseverance's signals to MRO and direct-to-Earth last during its seven minutes of terror?”
There are some misunderstandings here ( similar to this question [LINK] ) that make the question(s) a little malformed. Roughly what frequency was used in the link(s) between Perseverance and MRO? From Wagner et al. "Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter maneuver plan for Mars 2020 entry, descent, and landing support and beyond" (2019) [LINK] (emphasis added): Relay telecommunication support in the UHF frequency range is provided by the Electra Proximity Link Payload . The document for Electra ( especially in the MRO context ) is Edwards et al. "The Electra Proximity Link Payload for Mars relay telecommunications and navigation" (2003) [LINK] . It gives a frequency range of 390-450 MHz in 56 kHz steps