Perseverance has landed on Mars!

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Thought you might like to know . First pictures coming through now.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=H9AkgygOBkM

Landed ok and 2nd picture coming in now, live.

I got it's "I've landed" tweet.

Absolutely brilliant - great to see what this world can achieve when we put our minds together.

So amazing. I got a bit emotional when it landed. It’s so brilliant seeing such hard work pay off. And you can see Mars so clearly tonight above the moon!

Very exciting!

So nice to see the control room erupt in happiness like that.

I gave them a little round of applause from my sofa.

I cried. It must have been so brilliant for the team. It's kind of been out of their hands since leaving Earth. 7 months, and then these minutes of landing. So nervewracking. The cheers were lovely.

It’s looking for life there, it’ll be fascinating to watch what it turns up.

:D

Really looking forward to the findings.

MayYouLiveInInterestingTimes

Appropriate name for someone starting this thread

Nice to have some good interesting times for a change.

Hurrah for Perseverance and its amazing team

Huzzah!! So great to see it.

Absolutely incredible, what an achievement and name so apt.

Brilliant! Love a bit of good news. Well done, boffins

It's amazing! I'm excited for these findings and for the Europa mission 2027

I remember a previous unmanned space craft that landed on one of the planets (cannot remember which) and the lead scientist's mum was interviewed, pointing out he could not use the dishwasher (or some other basic household task). I thought of this.

I hope that they will achieve their aims.