Perseverance arrives at Mars tomorrow.

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Here's an article from Ars Technica today:
"Perseverance on Mars: Where it is, and what the next steps are"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02 ... steps-are/

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[Greenman]

Do we all have no life; I can imagine us all sitting around watching this...

Me on the iPad, then I noticed my missus was watching on her iPhone too. Amazing stuff once again NASA!

[ARock]

For those who observed the features of Mars this past year, the landing site of Perseverance on the map of Mars, Jezero Crater is at the common edge of Syrtis Major and Isidis Basin. Look at this web app:

https://rkinnett.github.io/mars/

The author of the page has marked the various landing sites in orange on the map. I used color_map_8k as the base map.

https://www.browndailyherald.com/2018/1 ... ding-site/
also has an enlarged picture locating Jezero Crater.

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New article from CNN:
"Ingenuity helicopter phones home from Mars"

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/20/world/ma ... index.html

Looking good!

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[smp]

Ha! I 'd forgotten all about this. My name and my wife's name are now on Mars, in a microchip on board Perseverance!

Here's a link to an article describing the 10,932,295 names:
https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8634/109-mil ... ars-rover/

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[helicon]

Congrats on becoming a Martian Stephen.