Mars Perseverance Landing!

NASA will attempt to land the Perseverance rover on Mars today. Live coverage will begin on NASA TV at 2:30 pm eastern, 19:30 UT.

Perseverance shares a lot in common with the previous Curiosity rover, including the skycrane landing system.

Some notable improvements include a zoom lens for the Mastcam (which uses the same KAI-2020CM CCD that I used to film Perseverance departing earth the night after its launch), a system for collecting and depositing samples to be picked up for a later Mars sample return mission, additional science payloads like MOXIE which will be the first in-situ resource utilization test on Mars to generate oxygen. The upgraded cameras and microphones will capture the sights and sounds of the landing to be transmitted back to earth afterwards. It also brings along a technology demonstrator named Ingenuity, a small helicopter drone with large blades to make the first attempt at powered flight on another world.

Here are images I captured of Perseverance's cruise stage headed towards Mars with my telescope and ST-2000XCM (which uses the KAI-2020CM CCD):
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It's the faint object moving from bottom left to top right. Using a simultaneous image from a telescope I controlled over the internet in California, I was able to measure the distance using parallax, and putting together all the data I was able to plot the trajectory and show that it was indeed on-course for Mars:

I did a live stream of my tracking of Perseverance right here on GLP:
Thread: Tracking the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Tonight!

Hollywood!

So I just googled how fast Mars is moving. 53, 853 mph.

How in the hell do they get a rocket from this rock moving 67000 mph to that rock moving almost 54000 mph? How fast does the rocket travel?

And does the rocket essentially travel in a straight line and kind of just intercept Mars or...? LOL I am not even sure I understand what I'm asking.

I used to think of the numbers and the math involved and would go blank and call it fake because I honestly can't comprehend it.

The calculations involved have to be so complex just to get there.

So I just googled how fast Mars is moving. 53, 853 mph.

How in the hell do they get a rocket from this rock moving 67000 mph to that rock moving almost 54000 mph? How fast does the rocket travel?

And does the rocket essentially travel in a straight line and kind of just intercept Mars or...? LOL I am not even sure I understand what I'm asking.

I used to think of the numbers and the math involved and would go blank and call it fake because I honestly can't comprehend it.

The calculations involved have to be so complex just to get there.

It all has to do with the letter "e".

...go on.

Landing in Arizona

Absolute bullshit. They probably filmed the “landing” somewhere in northern Canada. The earth is flat, and Mars is a mere celestial luminary, not a rocky spheroid that can be landed on.

Nevermind, just watched your tracking video. Fucking mind blowing.

Calculus.

2.7182818284590452353602874713527

Not sure which is more entertaining. The content or the tards like the example above. Either way thanks for providing us both Astro.

NASA will attempt to land the Perseverance rover on Mars today. Live coverage will begin on NASA TV at 2:30 pm eastern, 19:30 UT.

Perseverance shares a lot in common with the previous Curiosity rover, including the skycrane landing system.

Some notable improvements include a zoom lens for the Mastcam (which uses the same KAI-2020CM CCD that I used to film Perseverance departing earth the night after its launch), a system for collecting and depositing samples to be picked up for a later Mars sample return mission, additional science payloads like MOXIE which will be the first in-situ resource utilization test on Mars to generate oxygen. The upgraded cameras and microphones will capture the sights and sounds of the landing to be transmitted back to earth afterwards. It also brings along a technology demonstrator named Ingenuity, a small helicopter drone with large blades to make the first attempt at powered flight on another world.

Here are images I captured of Perseverance's cruise stage headed towards Mars with my telescope and ST-2000XCM (which uses the KAI-2020CM CCD):
[link to drive.google.com (secure)]
It's the faint object moving from bottom left to top right. Using a simultaneous image from a telescope I controlled over the internet in California, I was able to measure the distance using parallax, and putting together all the data I was able to plot the trajectory and show that it was indeed on-course for Mars:

I did a live stream of my tracking of Perseverance right here on GLP:
Thread: Tracking the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Tonight!

All you need to do is research...and you will find that the earth is actually flat and that landing on the planets is impossible...

It's technical:

Absolute bullshit. They probably filmed the “landing” somewhere in northern Canada. The earth is flat, and Mars is a mere celestial luminary, not a rocky spheroid that can be landed on.

All you need to do is research...and you will find that the earth is actually flat and that landing on the planets is impossible...

Yea, yea, been there, done that. Heard it all on both sides ten times over. You do you bro.

Nothing is landing on anything.

Heh.

Wrong.

Last year when I was observing Mars I directly measured its distance using the parallax between an image I took with my telescope and an image I simultaneously took with a telescope in New Mexico over the internet.
[link to drive.google.com (secure)]
Given a parallax angle of 0.00164658 degrees, a 2391.060 km chord distance, an angular separation of 49.528 degrees between Mars and Florida as seen from New Mexico at the time of observation, we get the following distance using the law of sines:
(2391.060 km/sin(0.00164658 degrees))*sin(49.528 degrees) = 63,292,970 km = 0.423 AU

Wrong.

Last year when I was observing Mars I directly measured its distance using the parallax between an image I took with my telescope and an image I simultaneously took with a telescope in New Mexico over the internet.
[link to drive.google.com (secure)]
Given a parallax angle of 0.00164658 degrees, a 2391.060 km chord distance, an angular separation of 49.528 degrees between Mars and Florida as seen from New Mexico at the time of observation, we get the following distance using the law of sines:
(2391.060 km/sin(0.00164658 degrees))*sin(49.528 degrees) = 63,292,970 km = 0.423 AU