Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This video reviews the main events in the first five minutes of the launch of the Atlas V rocket used to send Perseverance to Mars and presents data which can be analyzed to explore the relationships of force, mass and acceleration using Newton's 2nd Law. A future video will provide an example of data analysis.

This video supports #NGSS HS-PS2-1: Analyze data to support the claim that Newton's second law of motion describes the mathematical relationship among the net force on a macroscopic object, its mass, and its acceleration.

Other Mars 2020 Videos:
PIXL - Looking for Ancient Life on Mars - tinyurl.com/y3a24mx7
Mastcam-Z - Looking For Life on Mars - Coming Soon!
MEDA - Analyzing Weather on Mars - tinyurl.com/ybyvwtdb
Meet Perseverance, the 2020 Mars Rover - tinyurl.com/y7c9zdw5
MOXIE - Making Oxygen on Mars - tinyurl.com/yal79d4w
How Will We Breathe in Space? - tinyurl.com/y8t589ra
Naming the NASA 2020 Rover - tinyurl.com/yakwaq7n

#mars2020 #distancelearning #remotelearning
Video and Image Credits:
Perseverance launch - NASA
The Challenge of Getting to Mars - NASA
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Animations - NASA

Godfrey Kneller-IsaacNewton-1689 - newton.cam.ac.uk/art/portrait.html, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37337
Atlas V 541 underway to the launch pad - NASA/Frankie Martin commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlas_V_541_underway_to_the_launch_pad.jpg
Atlas V family - NASA commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlas_V_family.png
Atlas V-541 Launch Vehicle Expanded View - NASA
jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/MSLLaunch.pdf
Stage 1: Atlas V Rocket - NASA mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/launch-vehicle/stage1
Payload Fairing - NASA mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/launch-vehicle/payload-fairing
Stage 2: Centaur mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/launch-vehicle/stage2
Solid Rocket Motors - NASA mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/launch-vehicle/solid-rocket-motors
Perseverance Flight Profile - NASA jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/mars_2020/download/mars_2020_launch_press_kit.pdf
Hubble's Spectacular Wide View of the Universe - NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth and D. Magee (University of California, Santa Cruz), K. Whitaker (University of Connecticut), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), P. Oesch (University of Geneva), and the Hubble Legacy Field team.
spacetelescope.org/images/heic1909a

Music: Flames by Dan Henig