
Perseverance rover will be released from the capsule some few hundred kilometres above the Martian surface following which it will start making descend with the help of the Lander Vision System (LVS). Read: Excitement In China As Tianwen-1 Reaches Mars Orbit Perseverance, which has an onboard laboratory to conduct various tests, will land on the surface of Mars on February 18. So, scientists will get to know about the mission's success only after four minutes of its completion.

The Perseverance rover will already have landed on the surface of Mars, before the radio transmission could get back to mission managers on Earth, some 204 million kilometres away. Read: Mars Has Mysterious Dark Streaks And Scientists Believe It Sustained Life-like Situations
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The transmission from Mars takes at least 11 minutes to reach mission managers on Earth, but the full descend of Perseverance from the top of the atmosphere to the Martian surface will take only 7 minutes, which scientists refer to as "seven minutes of terror".


The rover will touch down the surface of Mars after entering the Red Planet's atmosphere, but before that it will send a radio transmission to a NASA team back on Earth, monitoring the journey of the space capsule. NASA's Mars rover Perseverance is all set to land on the surface of the Red Planet later this week after completing more than seven months of grueling journey in deep space.
