This illustration illustrates NASA’s Mars 2020 rover studying rocks with its robotic arm. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Panelists will talk about the rover’s just recently began science project and foundation for its next significant turning point.
NASA will hold a virtual media rundown at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT) Wednesday, July 21, to talk about early science arises from the company’s Perseverance Mars rover and its preparations to gather the first-ever Martian samples for prepared go back to Earth.
The rundown will stem from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover objective is handled. It will air reside on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the company’s site and livestream on several company social networks platforms, consisting of JPL’s YouTube and Facebook channels.
Briefing individuals consist of:
- Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science, NASA Headquarters
- Jennifer Trosper, Perseverance job supervisor, JPL
- Olivier Toupet, Perseverance improved navigation group lead, JPL
- Ken Farley, Perseverance job researcher, Caltech
- Vivian Sun, Perseverance science project co-lead, JPL
Members of the general public likewise might ask concerns on social networks throughout the rundown utilizing #AskNASA.
Perseverance landed in Jezero Crater on February 18. The rover group just recently finished up a preliminary checkout duration, which lasted 90 sols, or Martian days, and that included the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter test flight project. Perseverance started the science stage of its objective on June 1.
A crucial goal for Perseverance’s objective on Mars is astrobiology, consisting of the look for indications of ancient microbial life. The rover will identify the world’s geology and previous environment, lead the way for human expedition of the Red Planet, and be the very first objective to gather and cache Martian rock and regolith.
Subsequent NASA objectives, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send out spacecraft to Mars to gather these sealed samples from the surface area and return them to Earth for extensive analysis.
The Mars 2020 Perseverance objective belongs to NASA’s Moon to Mars expedition technique, that includes Artemis objectives to the Moon that will assist get ready for human expedition of the Red Planet.
JPL is handled for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California.
