The Perseverance rover will arrive on Mars on 21 February and For the first time, NASA will broadcast live a planetary landing in Spanish
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Among the many firsts from NASA’s Perseverance rover mission to Mars is the first program in Spanish of the space agency to broadcast on I live a planetary landing.
Thursday 21 February 2: 30 pm, the NASA will broadcast “Together we persevere” , a program that will provide viewers an overview of the mission to Mars and will highlight the role that Hispanic professionals at NASA have played in its success.
The program will air at 2: 30 pm EST on the website of the agency and in their social media accounts in Spanish: Twitter , Facebook and YouTube .
“Together we persevere” will begin broadcast prior to the landing of Perseverance on the Red Planet, which will take place at approximately 3: 55 pm EST.
The arrival of the Perseverance rover to Mars can also be seen live and in Spanish on YouTube: https://youtu.be/upLM5yGVKLg
The first program in Spanish of a historic mission
“I am very proud of NASA’s efforts to better share the excitement of the landing. Perseverance rover hoisting with almost 675 millions of Spanish speakers in the world. “Juntos perseveramos” is NASA’s first Spanish-language program for a historic landing on another planet and will show the diversity of the NASA team behind Mars 2021 “, said Bhayva Lal, Acting NASA Chief of Staff. “The name of the program recognizes that the Perseverance and diversity are critical for NASA to successfully carry out ambitious missions like next week’s Perseverance landing. ”
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“Together we persevere” will be presented by the engineer of Perseverance Diana Trujillo.
A pre-recorded section will include interviews with Hispanic NASA scientists, engineers and astronauts.
As well 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 translation from English to Spanish and commentary during the entry, descent and landing phase of Perseverance on Mars.
The mission of Perseverance on Mars
The Perseverance rover will search for signs of past microbial life, collect selected rock and sediment samples to Its future shipment to Earth, will characterize the geology and climate of Mars and pave the way for future human exploration beyond the Moon.
This is the fifth rover of NASA on Mars and, if successful, 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 on Mars ever attacked .
Perseverance also carries a technological experiment, the Mars Ingenuity Helicopter , which will attempt to carry out the first controlled and powered flight on another planet.
For more information on Perseverance (in English), visit:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars 2020
