An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover safely landing on Mars.
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Among the many firsts of NASA’s Perseverance rover mission to Mars there is the first program in Spanish of the space agency to transmit live a planetary landing.
On Thursday, Feb. 18 at 2:30 p.m., NASA will broadcast “Together we will persevere”, A program that will provide viewers with an overview of the mission to Mars and will highlight the role that NASA Hispanic professionals have played in their success.
The program will air at 2:30 pm EST on the agency’s website and on your social media accounts in Spanish: Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
“Together We Will Persevere” will begin airing before Perseverance lands on the Red Planet, which will take place at approximately 3:55 pm EST.
The arrival of the rover Perseverance on Mars can also be seen live and in Spanish on YouTube: https://youtu.be/upLM5yGVKLg
The first program in Spanish of a historical mission
“I am very proud of NASA’s efforts to better share the thrill of the Perseverance rover landing with the nearly 500 million Spanish speakers in the world.” Together we will persevere “is NASA’s first program in Spanish for a historian landing on another planet and will show the diversity of the NASA team after Mars 2020 “, said Bhayva Lal, NASA’s interim chief of staff. “The name of the program recognizes that perseverance and diversity are critical for NASA to successfully carry out ambitious missions such as next week’s Perseverance landing.”
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“Together we will persevere” will be presented by the Perseverance engineer Diana Trujillo.
A pre-recorded section will include interviews with NASA Hispanic scientists, engineers and astronauts.
too there will be a children’s segment in collaboration with Sesame.
Students and prominent Hispanic figures from the worlds of entertainment, journalism and politics will also send messages of support.
Diana Trujillo will offer live English to Spanish translation and commentary during the Perseverance on Mars entry, descent and landing phase.
Perseverance’s mission to Mars
The Perseverance rover will look for signs of past microbial life, collect select samples of rocks and sediments for future shipment to Earth, characterize the geology and climate of Mars, and pave the way for future human exploration beyond Moon.
This is NASA’s fifth rover on Mars and, if successful, it will be NASA’s ninth landing on the red planet.
All landings on Mars are difficult, but NASA’s Perseverance rover is trying to land on the most challenging terrain of Mars ever attacked.
Perseverance also carries a technological experiment, the Mars Ingenuity Helicopter, Which will try to carry out the first controlled and motorized flight to another planet.
For more information on Perseverance, visit: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020