First photograph taken by the NASA Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars on February 18, 2021. -
NASA
Barely arrived on the red planet and already memes all over the place.
The landing of the NASA Perseverance robot on Mars on Thursday sparked unprecedented enthusiasm in the twittosphere, according to data compiled on Friday by the Internet watch platform and social networks Visibrain.
Over the past 24 hours, "more than 1.5 million messages have been posted on Twitter on the subject," said Visibrain, which counted 53 tweets per second about this space feat during the five hours surrounding the landing .
An unprecedented craze on Twitter
As soon as the first images were sent by NASA, Internet users had fun hijacking them.
They invited in the image the meme of Bernie Sanders, former Democratic candidate for the American election, in his coat during the nomination of Joe Biden, John Travolta in
Pulp Fiction
or the head of Emmanuel Macron.
According to Visibrain, this is an unprecedented craze on Twitter for a mission of this type.
These figures are, however, far from those recorded by other major events, such as the invasion of the Capitol on January 6 which, according to the monitoring platform, had generated more than 23 million tweets in twenty-four hours (an average of 430 per second ).
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