{"id":139366,"date":"2021-02-16T15:05:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=139366"},"modified":"2021-02-16T22:28:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T03:28:07","slug":"nasa-rover-to-touch-down-in-mars-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nasa-rover-to-touch-down-in-mars-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA rover to touch down in Mars on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnasa-rover-to-touch-down-in-mars-on-thursday%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=139366&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2373870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2373870\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2373870\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21037752845055-655x437.jpg\" alt=\"FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2019 photo made available by NASA, engineers watch the first driving test for the Mars 2020 rover, later named &quot;Perseverance,&quot; in a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. (J. Krohn\/NASA via AP\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2373870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE \u2013 In this Dec. 17, 2019 photo made available by NASA, engineers watched the first driving test for the Mars 2020 rover, later named \u201cPerseverance,\u201d in a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. (J. Krohn\/NASA via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 7:00 PM PT \u2013 Tuesday, February 16, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>NASA engineers are gearing up to receive the first images of their monumental mission to explore Mars. According to reports, officials are anxiously awaiting radio transmission from their Perseverance rover.<\/p>\n<p>This is a part of of a nearly $3 billion and 300 million mile mission to see if there was any life on Mars. The Perseverance is programmed to land on Jezero, a 28-mile-wide crater.<\/p>\n<p>Engineers said the six-wheeled rover will face \u201cseven minutes of terror\u201d while descending from Mars\u2019s atmosphere to its surface.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s a delicate dance planned down to the second. Now, it&#8217;s time to execute. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CountdownToMars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CountdownToMars<\/a> with a play by play of the technical maneuvers &amp; key milestones <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAPersevere?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASAPersevere<\/a> will make in the 7 minutes before landing on the Red Planet: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wlzqM9D4BS\">https:\/\/t.co\/wlzqM9D4BS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WPw6Q4EIv3\">pic.twitter.com\/WPw6Q4EIv3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NASA (@NASA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASA\/status\/1361860443548090376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOur journey has been from following the water, to seeing whether this planet was habitable, to finding complex chemicals,\u201d NASA Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen said. \u201cNow, we\u2019re at the advent of an entirely new phase, returning samples, an aspirational goal that has been with the science community for decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2373871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2373871\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2373871\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21047851742838-439x437.jpg\" alt=\"In this image provided by NASA, Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator of NASA&#039;s Science Mission Directorate, speaks during a NASA Perseverance rover mission engineering and technology overview, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, at NASA&#039;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The Perseverance Mars rover is due to land on Mars on Thursday. (Bill Ingalls\/NASA via AP)\" width=\"439\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2373871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this image provided by NASA, Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator of NASA\u2019s Science Mission Directorate, spoke during a NASA Perseverance rover mission engineering and technology overview, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. (Bill Ingalls\/NASA via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Perseverance rover is expected to finish it\u2019s seven month journey on Thursday.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/psaki-biden-will-call-israels-netanyahu-soon-u-s-will-recalibrate-ties-with-saudi-arabia\/\">Pskai: Biden Will Call Israel\u2019s Netanyahu \u2018Soon,\u2019 U.S. Will Recalibrate Ties With Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893498,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}