Mars Pathfinder / Sojourner rover's reaction when 1997 called as JPL uploaded Perseverance rover's jetpack hover landing high-res video

Mars Pathfinder / Sojourner rover's reaction inflating when JPL uploaded Perseverance rover's jetpack hover landing high-res video and 1997 called

I had to convert it to an mp4 because the mpg clip only runs on windows media player. More info from the web archives

https://web.archive.org/web/20090724135513/http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/index0.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20090802172028/http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/mpf/edl/edl1.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20090802154031/http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/mpf/marswatch.html
There wasn't any Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite relay yet. They relied on two-decade old photos from the Mars Viking orbiters, which were prototype relays, but which had malfunctioned after taking measurements for a few months. They also uploaded amateur telescope reports of Martian weather to approve the landing date. It didn't hover land. It came in fast and needed airbags.