welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. nasa has released remarkable images of its space rover landing on mars, the first of their kind from the planet. it shows the final minutes of last week s tense descent with clouds of dust and grit being blown around as the vehicle is lowered to the floor of the crater. the rover, perseverance, has been sent to an ancient crater lake to search for signs of past life. our global science correspondent rebecca morelle has the story. the parachute has deployed. from the release of a supersonic parachute, to the shedding of a heat shield. first look at the surface. an out of this world view mars as never seen before. as the rover nears the surface, the dust is kicked up, then a change of camera as perseverance is lowered on ropes before touchdown. touchdown confirmed. perseverance safely on the surface of mars! ..and the landing system is jettisoned away. we can t test it on the earth, so this is the first time we ve
nasa has released remarkable images of its space rover landing on mars, the first of their kind from the planet. it shows the final minutes of last week s tense descent with clouds of dust and grit being blown around as the vehicle is lowered to the floor of the crater. the rover, perseverance, has been sent to an ancient crater lake to search for signs of past life. our global science correspondent rebecca morelle has the story. the parachute has deployed. from the release of a supersonic parachute, to the shedding of a heat shield. first look at the surface. an out of this world view mars as never seen before. as the rover nears the surface, the dust is kicked up, then a change of camera as perseverance is lowered on ropes before touchdown. touchdown confirmed. perseverance safely on the surface of mars! ..and the landing system is jettisoned away. we can t test it on the earth, so this is the first time we ve had a chance as engineers to actually see what we designed and
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. nasa has released truly remarkable images of its space rover landing on mars, the first of their kind from the planet. it shows those final minutes of last week s tense descent with clouds of dust and grit blowing around as the vehicle is lowered to touch down on mars, 293 million miles. 472 million kilometres from earth. the rover, perseverance, has been sent to an ancient lake crater to search for signs of life, from billions of years ago. our global science correspondent rebecca morelle has the story. the parachute has deployed. from the release of a supersonic parachute, to the shedding of a heat shield. first look at the surface. an out of this world view mars as never seen before. as the rover nears the surface, the dust is kicked up, then a change of camera as perseverance is lowered on ropes before touchdown. touchdown confirmed. perseverance safely on the surface of mars! ..and the landing system is jet
from the red planet. hello and welcome. president biden has described the deaths of more than half a million people in the united states from coronavirus as a truly grim and heart breaking milestone. speaking at a vigil at the white house, mr biden said more americans had died in one year of the pandemic that in the first and second world wars and the vietnam war combined. the president has ordered flags on federal buildings to be flown at half mast for five days as a mark of respect to those who have lost their lives. just before he and the vice president led a moment s silence, he had these words for americans. as we all remember, i also ask us to act to remain vigilant, to stay socially distanced, to mask up, get vaccinated when it is your turn. we must end the politics of misinformation that has divided families, communities and the country and has cost too many lives already. it is not democrats and republicans who are dying from the virus, it s our fellow americans, our
barber. and the designer stella mccartney lead tributes to stella tennant who has passed away suddenly at the age of 50. hello to you, and welcome to oui’ hello to you, and welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. after years of to and fro and nine months of actual talks, the uk and the eu seem to be close, finally, to striking a post brexit trade deal. british cabinet ministers were summoned for a conference call with the prime minister late on wednesday evening, but any announcement is likely to be held over until a morning press c0 nfe re nce . talks are expected to continue throughout the night. the final text is said to be about 2000 pages. with the view from london and brussels, here are our correspondents nick eardley and kevin connolly. the talks are going to go on for a few hours yet. we know they are into the nitty gritty. it is really crossing tees and dotting the eyes. the latest we heard is that it is likely to be included in the next few