NASA will hold a press conference Wednesday at 11 a.m. to discuss the agency's last year's long-lasting Mars rover's analysis of the rock, the subject of an upcoming scientific paper. The agency previously announced the incident as a conference call.
Watch the press conference on NASA's YouTube channel and the agency's website. Learn how to watch NASA content through various platforms including social media.
Participants include:
- Agent NASA Administrator Sean Duffy
- NASA Deputy Manager Amit Kshatriya
- Nicky Fox, Deputy Administrator of Science Mission Bureau, NASA Headquarters, Washington
- Lindsay Hays, Senior Scientist at MARS Exploration, NASA Headquarters
- Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance Project Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California
- Joel Hurowitz, planetary scientist at Stony Brook University in New York
To ask questions by phone, media members must arrive within an hour before the event begins: [email protected]. Media that have registered earlier telecom versions of this event do not need to re-register. NASA's media certification policy is available online.
The sample, known as the “Sapphire Canyon”, was collected in July 2024 from a group of rock outcrops at the edge of Neretva Vallis, a river valley that had long ago rushed into the Jezero crater.
Perseverance has collected 30 samples since landing at the Jezero Crater on the Red Planet in February 2021. The rover still has six empty sample tubes to fill, and it continues to collect detailed information about geological targets that have not been sampled using its wear tools. Among the scientific tools of the rover, there is a weather station that provides environmental information for future human missions, as well as a color palette of spacesuit materials so that NASA can study its fare on Mars.
JPL is managed by the California Institute of Technology (NASA), which represents the agency’s NASA MARS Exploration Program Coltfolio to establish and manage the operations of Perseverance Rovers on behalf of the agency’s Science Mission Bureau.
To learn more about Perseverance Visits:
https://www.nasa.gov/perseverance
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