For perceiving the events happening, sure, that was my point. These time differences are nearly always imperceptible but at distances of planets it truly become

For perceiving the events happening, sure, that was my point. These time differences are nearly always imperceptible but at distances of planets it truly becomes a way of looking into the past. But to be clear, events happen concurrently, eg NASA knew _when_ relative to earth time and _perceived_ events, each stage was "happening" local to Mars vs Earth (assuming it all went well). They made videos about this "7 minutes of terror", I forgot the name of them but linking here [0] [0] https://youtu.be/Ki_Af_o9Q9s https://youtu.be/Ki_Af_o9Q9s