NASA to Share Particulars of New Perseverance Mars Rover Discovering

Participants within the teleconference embody:

• Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy
• Nicky Fox, affiliate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington
• Lindsay Hays, Senior Scientist for Mars Exploration, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters
• Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance Project Scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California
• Joel Hurowitz, planetary scientist, Stony Brook University, New York

Since touchdown within the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater in February 2021, Perseverance has collected 30 samples. The rover nonetheless has six empty pattern tubes to fill, and it continues to gather detailed details about geologic targets that it hasn’t sampled by utilizing its abrasion device. Among the rover’s science devices is a climate station that gives environmental data for future human missions, in addition to swatches of spacesuit materials in order that NASA can research the way it fares on Mars.

Managed for NASA by Caltech, JPL constructed and manages operations of the Perseverance rover on behalf of the company’s Science Mission as a part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program portfolio.

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