LANDING: FEB. 18, 2021
#CountdownToMars
Share Your Celebration with Us!
The #CountdownToMars is almost complete. On Feb. 18, 2021, the Perseverance rover makes its touchdown on the Red Planet. Help us mark this event by sharing your landing day experience with us. Your video may be featured on our NASA social media accounts after the rover has made it to its new home.
Students: Send Us Your Video Questions
Students: have burning questions about the mission? Record your questions and tag them with #CountdownToMars prior to landing and it may be featured in the landing show.
How to Participate:
Your voices helped celebrate the historic launch!
People all over the world sent in their well-wishes for the rover’s July 2020 launch. You were part of history by participating in this global, collective sendoff. Now’s your chance to do the same to celebrate landing!
We Want to See Your Videos!
Where will you be watching? Who will you share it with? We want to see your celebration when Perseverance touches down. A few ideas:
- Show us your anticipation as well as your reaction to the landing
- Get your kids and/or pets involved
- Role play as a NASA flight director
- Give us your best announcer voice
- Send your best wishes to the mission team
- Get your boarding pass as your name will land on Mars!
- Cheer, hold up signs, make costumes — you name it!
Terms and Conditions
When submitting image(s) and/or video(s) to the #CountdownToMars campaign or Mission to Mars Student Challenge, on your own behalf, as an educator on behalf of your student(s), or as a parent/guardian on behalf of your child(ren), you affirm to NASA/JPL-Caltech that:- The image or video was produced by you or your student(s) or child(ren) (i.e., your original work or the original work of your student(s) or child(ren))
- The contents of the image or video do not infringe the copyright, or any other right, of any third party
- The image or video do not contain inappropriate content
- You are either more than 18 years of age, an emancipated minor, or have the consent of your parent or legal guardian to submit your image or video to the campaign. In any case, you affirm that you are over the age of 13.
In the event any individual is featured in any submitted images or video, by submitting such material you represent and warrant that such individual agrees that NASA/JPL-Caltech may use such individual’s name or likeness in connection with NASA’s use of the material in the campaign.
If submitting on a social media platform, your images and videos must comply with the terms of service for the site you are using:
By participating in the campaign, you grant the U.S. government a royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive license to reproduce, display and distribute entries, in whole or in part, in any media now existing or subsequently developed, for any educational, promotional, publicity, exhibition, archival, scholarly and all other governmental purposes, and to have or permit others to do so on the government’s behalf. NASA/JPL-Caltech will use reasonable efforts to mark any images or video reproduced with a credit, if feasible. NASA/JPL-Caltech will not be required to seek any additional approval in connection with such uses.
