See where the Perseverance rover is flying now

NASA's new Eyes on the Solar System service allows you to monitor the trajectory of the Perseverance rover in real time.

Engineers plan for the device to reach Mars on February 18, 2021, during which time it will fly bymillions of kilometers to Jezero Crater on the Red Planet.

Users can see the distance betweendevice and Mars, as well as the distance to other celestial bodies. The service interface includes dozens of controls - you can customize what you want to see. Alternatively, you can select 3D mode and watch Eyes on the Solar System travel with special glasses.

“When we look at the solar system withof this service, we see the same trajectory data that the navigation team uses to plot the Perseverance course to Mars. If you want to follow us on our journey, this is where we should be. "

 Fernando Abilleira, Mars 2020 Design and Navigation Manager

In the Eyes on the Solar System service you can seenot only Perseverance travel. Users can see other objects in the solar system, and in different years. The site not only uses real-time data and imagery from NASA spacecraft, but also contains NASA data from 1950 and forecasts for 2050. Location, movement and appearance are based on predicted and reconstructed mission data.

The launch of the Perseverance rover took place on July 30 at 14:50 Moscow time (7:50 Eastern Standard Time) on an Alliance Atlas V rocket from Spaceport 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It is a latest-model device designed to search for astrobiological evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars. It is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, which presentsa long-term attempt at robotic exploration of the Red Planet.

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