Published 01:10 IST, February 19th 2021

How fast is Perseverance travelling to Mars? Find out when the rover lands on Mars

he rover was launched from Earth seven months ago is at the final stage of its journey, the landing. How fast is Perseverance traveling to Mars? Find out.

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After several months of journey NASA Perseverance rover is set to land at Jezero Crater on Red Planet. rover was launched from Earth seven months ago is at final st of its journey, landing. How fast is Perseverance traveling to Mars? Re on to find out 

NASA's rover Perseverance is at very end st of it's long journey from Earth to Mars. rover was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County in Florida. This is one of NASA's most important missions yet. mission of Perseverance rover is to find any signs of primitive microbial life on surface or dry lake beds on Mars. As reported by NASA, rover will specifically look for signs of life of microbes from past, from time life started evolving on Earth to find out if life ever existed on Mars too. If NASA does man to find actual signs of life going back millions of years, it will be one fo biggest scientific breakthroughs in recent history. 

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How Fast is Perseverance Travelling to Mars? Perseverance speed 

Perseverance is travelling to Mars at absolutely ridiculously high speeds. As per NASA, Perseverance left Earth at about a speed of 24,600 miles per hour or about 39,000 kilometres per hour. trip to Mars is approximately 300 million miles from  Earth (480 million kilometres) During journey engineers working on Perseverance mission can change speed, direction and trajectory of rover to make it's arrival to Red Planet. 

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Perseverance Landing Live Stream 

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Perseverance Mars rover will land on Mars at approximately 3:55 p.m. EST. Perseverance Mars rover landing live stream has alrey started on NASA's channel NASA TV and NASA's Youtube live stream which is embedded above. You can tune into channel 32 on Direct TV to watch stream on NASA TV. You can watch Perseverance landing real time by visiting video embedded above. stream will begin at following times for different time zones - 11:15 AM PST / 2:15 PM EST / 19:15 UTC. NASA has called descent most difficult part of mission and y coined landing as 'Seven minutes of terror'. Stay tuned for more updates for Perseverance landing. 

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01:10 IST, February 19th 2021