Originally published at: Watch NASA's Perseverance rover land on Mars! | Boing Boing
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What will there be to watch though? A bunch of people in a control room anxiously staring at monitors?
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Go go, Perseverance!
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the radio signals take so long to arrive nobody will know until data is received
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Yes, also the call outs as they come in and a fancy animation of what should be going down.
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Burr-limey! That looks awesomely complex and complexly awesome.
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There was “live” footage of the Curiosity landing but I don’t know if they’re doing that this time.
Good luck, Percy!
In addition to the livestream, I also suggest following Bobak Ferdowsi (one of those people anxiously staring at monitors in the control room during Curiosity’s landing) on Twitter. He also worked on Perseverance and has been posting about it all morning.
(Incidentally, it’s still a little mind-bending to me that the rover will be on the ground (in one form or another) for 3 minutes before we even get the signal that EDL has begun. Spacetime is wild.)
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You say that as though absolute simultaneity was a thing.
there is both a camera on board and – for the first time – a microphone on board dedicated to the landing.
the camera isn’t broadcasting live but i believe the microphone is.
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I’m dead 
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Successful touchdown! 
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It’s official: 2021 doesn’t suck as much as 2020 did.
Further evidence:
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WoooHooo!
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First image back already!
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That was so exciting! Congrats to anyone here who had anything to do with this.
Also worth noting that when you look at a room of some of the smartest people in the country, if not world, they’re all wearing masks right now!
But not to detract: what an awesome, buoyant thing humans just accomplished! Go, team!
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Yay!
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