Let’s go off-shore, even off planet to an event that’s about to happen on Mars, where the Perseverance rover is about to enter the Martian atmosphere within a couple of hours.

It’s travelled nearly half-a-billion kilometres, at a whopping 76,000 kilometres per hour, and soon it’s going to use the red planet’s thin atmosphere to help slow it down, a process which will heat the bottom of the spacecraft as high as 1300 degrees celsius.

Then, about 7 minutes later, it will – fingers crossed – land in the Jezero Crater.

Corin Dann asked NASA Mars 2020 scientist, Michelle Minitti, about those “seven minutes of terror”.