https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/02/18/nasas-mars-rover-perseverance-to-attempt-landing-at-1255pm-today/ > Seven months after it launched into space, NASA’s robotic rover Perseverance will enter the final “seven minutes of terror” Thursday as it autopilots its own landing onto the Red Planet with no communication from Earth. > Not only is Perseverance, at $2.7 billion, the biggest, most autonomous rover NASA has ever produced, it’s also attempting to land at the trickiest location on Mars ever attempted. And thanks to an advanced camera system and an innovative new microphone, we’ll not only be able to watch in high resolution but also hear — for the first time ever — what it’s actually like to land on Mars.