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Perseverance pays off

NASA rover successfully down in Jezero Crater on Mars.

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It started with the type of chatter you might hear from someone setting up a complex sound system. 

“Voice check, Smith.” 

“I read you five by five.” 

“Telemetry?”

“Green.” 

“Voice check, Jones. 

“I read you…” 

Lots of names (not actually named Smith and Jones). Calm, measured voices from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, plus others chiming in by laptop and phone from around the world.

But the calm overlaid an underlying tension.

Because even before the sound checks, there’s also been another bit of control room chatter. 

“Flight mission, copy. It’s go time.” 

NASA’s Perseverance rover was no longer on its way to Mars. It was about to land. Intact or in pieces, nobody knew for sure, but it was coming down one way or another.

And come down it did, landing safely at 7:56 am AEDT, about as close to perfectly on target as anyone could dream of, immediately beaming back a signal telling the world it was safe, followed by a grainy photo of its surroundings.  

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