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I know that the launch will be live streamed, but I am interested in the landing.
Is there a plan to make it possible for the general public to get access to landing video as soon as mission control? Will a landing video be broadcasted back to Earth during the actual landing?
Answers to Could "live" video be transmitted from Mars? suggest this is theoretically possible.
I found this article for the 2012 Curiosity rover launch which stated that
NASA Television will be broadcasting live coverage of Curiosity's landing on Aug. 5 beginning at 8 p.m. EDT
(I also found this video showing the mission control room during the landing but I don't know if that was shown live)
So, I suppose that it is probable that we will see live coverage of the landing for the Perseverance rover.
Answers to Could "live" video be transmitted from Mars? suggest this is theoretically possible.
No, they don't.
Imagine having 1-3m (or more) parabolic antenna deployed during landing and precisely directed to Earth.
An aerodynamic nightmare.
