Subj : Perseverance rover to land on Mars tomorrow!
To   : Alan Ianson
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Feb 18 2021 22:38:00

Hello Alan Ianson!

** On Thursday 18.02.21 - 02:57, Alan Ianson wrote to Sonya Weasner:

 SW>> The Perseverance rover will be landing on Mars tomorrow at
 SW>> 11:15 PST! This is super exciting! Does anyone plan to
 SW>> watch the landing live?

 AI> I plan to watch if I can catch it.

I completely forgot about it.  I had it scheduled as a reminder  
in my iPod, but I forgot the iPod at home this morning.

 SW>> One thing I think that is really neat is that there is a
 SW>> helicopter strapped to the belly of the rover...

 AI> That'll be interesting. I don't know how much atmosphere
 AI> there is on Mars, 1% of Earth's (maybe) so that helicopter
 AI> has to be small and light, yet the propellers have to spin
 AI> very fast. We'll see how it goes.. :)

I bet the fine martian dust will muck up the rotors very  
quickly.  There is no service station on mars to repairs things  
like that.  :D

SO.. was the landing captured well?  One of the pics post- 
landing is just black and white. Isn't this multi-billion $  
rover equipped with a colour cameras?

I think I noticed a recorded 2hr program of the event on YT.

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