NASA to Share Particulars of New Perseverance Mars Rover Discovering

NASA will host a information convention at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday to debate the evaluation of a rock sampled by the company’s Perseverance Mars rover final 12 months, which is the topic of a forthcoming science paper. The company previously announced this occasion as a teleconference.

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Participants 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 mission scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California
• Joel Hurowitz, planetary scientist, Stony Brook University, New York

The pattern, referred to as “Sapphire Canyon,” was collected in July 2024 from a set of rocky outcrops on the sides of Neretva Vallis, a river valley carved by water dashing into Jezero Crater way back.

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 through the use of its abrasion software. Among the rover’s science devices is a climate station that gives environmental info 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 Directorate as a part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program portfolio.

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