I’ll take a look at the rest of
your roadways coming up the
right now we are incident free
over to you all right Andy,
thank you it’s a big day for
NASA anxiously awaiting a new
mission to Mars now less than 2
hours away from launch time
we’ve got a live look for you
this morning at the launch pad
Cape Canaveral Florida liftoff
is scheduled.
>> For 6.50. This morning.
Our taisha Walker’s live at the
Johnson Space Center to take a
closer look at the mission good
morning.
>> All in good morning. Yeah,
>> All in good morning. Yeah,
our less than 2 hours now from
launch time that new Rover
expected to lift off from the
Kennedy Space Center in Florida
and slowly make its way to the
planet Mars the Mars
perseverance Rover has called
all worked off from Cape
all worked off from Cape
Canaveral at 6.50 our time this
morning 07:50AM Eastern time.
We know that NASA wants to send
this Rover to Mars in hopes of
collecting rock samples and
soil.
>> And a source for any sort of
trace of ancient life. We’re
also told that a microphone
will be a top to the Rover so
that we can hear what the Red
Planet actually sounds like.
Well, the first time a drone
will fly 15 feet off of the
ground to survey the planet.
NASA says it will take almost 7
months for perseverance to even
reach Mars and then there will
be an intense landing. They’re
hauling 7 minutes of terror
will tell you more about that
in the next hour but ordinarily
this would not be an easy task.
But in the middle of a pandemic
planning. This launch was even
more challenging for engineers,
but they persevered which led
to the name of the aircraft
perseverance.
>> We’ll have an opportunity to
see another spacecraft CR
spacecraft landed on another
planet. We’ve got commercial
ruggedized cameras that we’ve
distributed essentially all
over the spacecraft and they’ll
get high definition video that
will bring back after you land
on the surface.
>> And NASA says this mission
>> And NASA says this mission
is very important because it
could potentially lead to the
future human exploration of
that red planet and coming up
at 6.15 when that launch
