r/spaceporn • u/superblobby • Feb 18 '21

The first Image from the Perseverance Rover NASA

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u/FODPRAC Feb 18 '21

I takes about 11 minutes for the signals to travel from Mars to Earth. So when we got the signals that the rover entered the atmosphere the rover itself had already landed.

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u/win7macOSX Feb 19 '21

Is it auto-landing, then? If not, how could NASA’z remote pilots be able to maneuver the rover in the event of catastrophe?

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u/wsp424 Feb 19 '21

It is all automated. In the event of catastrophe they’ll know a few minutes after the fact. Hence the phrase “seven minutes of terror” not in reference to losing ones virginity.