ESA Mars orbiters support NASA Perseverance landing

Space Daily

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Paris (ESA) Feb 12, 2021

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is due to land on the Red Planet at 21:43 CET on 18 February 2021. In order to communicate with Earth from its landing site in Jezero Crater, the rover will rely on spacecraft orbiting Mars to relay the images and other data it collects back to Earth and pass on the commands from engineers beamed across space in the other direction. The ESA-Roscosmos Exo

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