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WATCH LIVE: NASA’s Perseverance rover sticks Mars landing

By Washington Examiner Staff
Published February 18, 2021 7:55pm ET
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WATCH LIVE: NASA’s Perseverance rover sticks Mars landing
This illustration provided by NASA shows the Perseverance rover, bottom, landing on Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land safely on Feb. 18, 2021. Entry, Descent, and Landing, or "EDL," begins when the spacecraft reaches the top of the Martian atmosphere, traveling nearly 12,500 mph (20,000 kph). EDL ends about seven minutes after atmospheric entry, with Perseverance stationary on the Martian surface. | (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is set to land on the red planet at 3:55 p.m. ET.

Among other tasks, the rover is intended to probe for signs that extraterrestrial life ever existed on Mars.

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