(With apologies to Jon Bon Jovi.)
I'm constantly impressed by NASA's efforts to engage the world in the exploration of space. Not only do they set up a system where people can have their names on a Mars probe, not only do they let you make a boarding pass for the mission, but they set up a site where you can track the probe's progress on its way to Mars with an active counter for every kilometer or mile that the probe has covered, its speed, the percentage of the trip completed, and the countdown to its landing date.
Today, they announced on Twitter that Perseverance had reached the half-way mark on its journey to Mars - 146 million miles or 235 million kilometers, 98,411 kph, all is going smoothly, and counting down to February 18th.
If you're interested in following Perseverance's progress, you can keep track at:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
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