This Thursday The Royal Society of Chemistry will be streaming the Perseverance rover landing on Mars – LIVE from NASA’s feed (we have their approval in writing which is pretty insane. :)) – in collaboration with the UK Space Agency.
You can stream it live on our TikTok channel tomorrow (18th February) at 20:15: https://www.tiktok.com/@royalsocietyofchemistry (you can view it on desktop, the app is not mandatory).
The actual landing is predicted to be at 20:55, but it can happen earlier or later – it is over 200 million miles away so who knows how accurate this prediction is!:)
The mission is searching for signs of ancient life on Mars which involves a lot of chemistry of course – including collecting and analysing samples of rock and regolith that will be coming back only in 2031.
As well as leading the search for alien life on the red planet, Perseverance will test out a new instrument, Moxie, that aims to convert the Martian air into oxygen.
