Episode Seven— Stop, Drop & Rove
After a long 7-month cruise across the cosmos, NASA’s Perseverance Rover has finally reached The Red Planet. And it’s a hazardous landing for the history books. Traveling at over 12 thousand miles an hour, it’s auto-programmed to stop, drop & rove. KTLA’s Steve Kuzj shows us just what the rover had to go through, to survive the “7 Minutes of Terror” upon arrival into the Martian atmosphere.
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This aired on the KTLA 5 News on February 18, 2021.