Subj : Perseverance rover to land on Mars tomorrow!
To   : Sonya Weasner
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Thu Feb 18 2021 02:57 am

  Re: Perseverance rover to land on Mars tomorrow!
  By: Sonya Weasner to All on Thu Feb 18 2021 05:35 pm

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

I plan to watch if I can catch it.

 SW> One thing I think that is really neat is that there is a helicopter
 SW> strapped to the belly of the rover. That helicopter, Ingenuity, will
 SW> attempt the first powered flight on Mars (or any other planet!). Basically
 SW> the Wright Brothers flight attempt but on the red planet! You can see a
 SW> cool simulation of that here: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter

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

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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