Illustration of the Perseverance rover during its descent on Martian soil.

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THE ESSENTIAL

  • The Perseverance rover is due to land on the planet Mars this Thursday, after seven months of travel.

    It is the largest and most advanced vehicle ever sent to the Red Planet.

  • This ultra-perilous operation is to last seven minutes and must allow the one-ton rover to land in Jezero crater, where scientists believe they can find traces of life.

  • If it arrives intact, Perseverance will be only the fifth rover to make the trip since 1997. All of them so far are American, and one of them, Curiosity, is still in operation.

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8:05 p.m .: Proof of a French craze, Emmanuel Macron attends the landing tonight at the Paris headquarters of the National Center for Space Studies

After a 6 month trip, we are almost there!

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7:55 p.m .: We will live together a descent strewn with pitfalls

Seven minutes… This is the time it takes for the rover to enter the Martian atmosphere, descend and land on the ground.

Fabrice Pouliquen makes you experience these “seven minutes of terror” that the rover (and the engineers who participated in the project) will experience

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Hello everyone and welcome to this live.

Tonight, we will follow the “seven minutes of terror” of the landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars, which is only a stone's throw from the red planet.

At the time this post is published, we are a little less than H-2 before landing, the tension is rising and we will live it together.

Let's go !

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