Good morning from Los Angeles! Today of course is the big day, and this where we'll talk about Perseverance's entry, descent, and landing. For those members who haven't been on UMSF during a Mars landing, days like this have been quite a bit of fun--enjoy!

Please see the Perseverance Arrival- Media Coverage Options thread for links to various ways to watch it happen. NASA TV coverage is now live at 0930 PST (1730 UTC). UMSF's own Emily Lakdawalla, author of "The Design and Engineering of Curiosity", will be hosting a YouTube broadcast of her own and her highly informed commentary interspersed with real-time events from JPL will be a first-class option.

Here's the planned sequence of events in Earth-received time (US Pacific Standard Time) and UTC. Times are of course approximate; there may be variations on the order of a few seconds. Get your peanuts and beverage of choice ready, and let's land on Mars!!!

12:38 (2038 UTC)- Cruise stage separation

12:48 (2048 UTC)- Atmospheric entry interface

12:49 (2049 UTC)- Peak heating, peak deceleration

12:52 (2052 UTC)- Chute deploy

12:52:20 (2052:20 UTC)- Heat shield separation

12:54 (2054 UTC)- Backshell separation, beginning of powered flight

12:55 (2055 UTC)- Skycrane, touchdown

Peanuts ready here, go Perseverance

indeed !

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Livecast from JPL live now on NASA TV.

As Emily mentioned in her blog, the NASA Media stream has no commentators, just JPL call outs:

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#media

So far, everything is A-OK

Emily's show is now live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woab2wX5Db4

Also available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrbJ63qUc4

Eyes On The DSN showing four antennas on Percy right now.

Lets' go for ONE peanut

They keep saying "meters" to target. Is the target the landing spot they would like below the cliffs ?

Pistachios finished, switching to peanuts, on my mark, GO!

Cruise stage sep!!!!

See the carrier in Green Bank

MRO will relay live data, 5 minutes to entry interface

I'm back.

whohooo!

Here we go.. white knuckles Local brewery's timely release standing by, for however it goes...
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Welcome back !!!!!

Deploy peanuts at entry interface!

Entry interface.

My Eyes on Mars crashed. Mars turned into a black hole. lol

Fingers crossed, the forum ghosts are back

CHUTE!!!!

My kids ate all my peanuts. Just when things get exciting

Same here So thats what the inside of Mars looks like.

POWERED FLIGHT!!!

TOUCHDOWN!!!!!

Tango Delta nominal Touchdown!

Congratulations to everybody, Persy has landed.

Outstanding! Images incoming.

Congratulations to NASA and JPL.

FIRST HAZCAM PICS!

No longer turning blue. Excellent! Yes, there will be a map thread.

Phil

Hazcam thumbnail - have you identified any features, Phil?

Yes! Pictures! Congratulations Rover team!!!!!!!

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Let's start migrating the discussion to the new Sol 0 & onward thread!

Pic

I watched the landing live on a Youtube stream.

Well done team! Go Percy!

Huzzah!

That ladies and gentlemen is how you land on Mars. Well done,

Phew . Congratulations!

Congratulations. Amazing job. My heartbeat is still in triple digits. Never in doubt, right?

Emily Lakdawalla's broadcast was great.

No images yet ....

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/

Not lately. Seems like NASA has figured mars out.

We are 5-5 since the Polar Landers I think..i think i may be missing one here? Martians must be thinking its an invasion.

Spirit
Oppo
Phoenix
Curiosity
Perseverance

Ill be very interested in the Tianwen-1 rover lander to see how that goes

Agree. Haven't seen Emily in several years. She doesn't seem to age.

Congrats to the Mars 2020 team on a successful landing of Percy Rover on Mars.

Lander used 305 out of 401 Kgs of fuel, and flew away with 96 kgs. Lots of reserves left over.

Warmest congratulations to all of JPL!! What a great achievement, once again!

I'm so glad these seven minutes are behind us!

Phew!