NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will launch in July 2020 and land on the Red Planet in February 2021 to collect rock and soil samples and search for signs of microbial life. A webcam called “Seeing 2020” allows viewers to watch the rover being assembled and tested at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The feed is available at https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/where-is-the-rover/. Mars has the tallest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons, and two moons, Phobos and Deimos.
Mankind is still years away from making a manned trip to Mars, but a NASA rover will begin its journey to the Red Planet next year, and Earth-based viewers can watch the rover reunite before its journey. Thanks to a webcam dubbed “Seeing 2020,” anyone can go online and witness a team of engineers and technicians assemble and test the Mars 2020 rover in a cleanroom at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The mission is expected to launch in July 2020, and the rover will land on Mars in February 2021, where it will collect rock and soil samples and look for signs of previous microbial life. Just over a year after launch, the (yet-to-be-named) rover is starting to take shape, with the recent installation of six wheels and a suspension system. Although the webcam operates 24 hours a day, every day, NASA warns that there will be periods of downtime when the camera is shut down for maintenance or rover work temporarily moves out of sight. Otherwise, the continuous live feed, which offers a bird’s-eye view of the rover’s work, can be found at https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/where-is-the-rover/.
Reading on the red planet:
Mars boasts Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain in the solar system, at 16 miles (24km) high. It is about three times higher than Everest.
A day on Mars is barely longer than one on Earth, but a Martian year is almost twice as long because Mars has a much longer orbit around the sun.
Mars has two moons: Phobos and Deimos. Phobos is expected to tear apart or crash into Mars within 50 million years.
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