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It's the latter. The Earth-Mars latency at this time is something like 11 minutes, and the landing itself takes about 7 minutes, so when we on Earth first saw t
by PeterisP 6y ago
It's the latter. The Earth-Mars latency at this time is something like 11 minutes, and the landing itself takes about 7 minutes, so when we on Earth first saw the craft entering atmosphere on Mars, by that time all the landing was already over, one way or another.
- interestica 6y agoNASA has a good breakdown of their expected miletones at 'earth receive time' - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-next-mars-rover-is-ready-for-the-most-precise-landing-yet https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-next-mars-rover-is-r... Apparently the latency time is currently 11 mins 22 seconds -- which is somewhere near the average. It goes from under 4 mins to over 22mins depending on distance.