NASA to Share Details of New Perseverance Mars Rover Finding
NASA will organize a media teleconference at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 10, to discuss the analysis of a rock sampled by the perseverance of the Mars Rover agency last year, which is the subject of a next scientific document.
The sample, called “Sapphire Canyon”, was taken in July 2024 in a set of rocky outcrops on the banks of Neretva Vallis, a river valley carved by water rushing into the Jezero crater a long time ago.
The audio and the visuals of the call will broadcast on the agency’s website:
Participants in the teleconference include:
- The interim administrator of NASA Sean Duffy
- Nicky Fox, Associate Administrator, Directorate of the Scientific Mission, Headquarters of NASA in Washington
- Lindsay Hays, principal scientist for March Exploration, planetary science division, NASA headquarters
- Katie Stack Morgan, Scientist of the Perseverance project, NASA jet propulsion laboratory in southern California
- Joel Hurowitz, planetary scientist, Stony Brook University, New York
To ask questions by phone, media members must RSVP no later than two hours before the start of the event at: rexana.v.vizza@jpl.nasa.gov. NASA media accreditation policy is available online.
Since landing in the Jezero Crater of the Red Planet in February 2021, persistence has collected 30 samples. The rover still has six tubes of empty samples to fill, and it continues to collect detailed information on the geological targets that it has not sampled using its abrasion tool. Among the scientific instruments of the Rover, there is a weather station which provides environmental information for future human missions, as well as samples of space combination equipment so that NASA can study how it behaves on Mars.
Managed for NASA by Caltech, JPL has built and manages the operations of the Perseverance rover on behalf of the agency’s scientific mission management as part of the NASA Mars Exploration Program portfolio.
To learn more about the visit of perseverance:
https://www.nasa.gov/perseverance
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