Navcam Panorama of the deck of the Rover Perseverance: Navigation cameras or navigation cameras, aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, captured this view of the rover’s deck on February 20, 2021. This view provides a good look at PIXL (the Planetary Instrument for X-ray lithochemistry), one of the instruments in the rover’s stowed arm. Download image ›
Mission team members participate in a virtual teleconference to discuss milestones achieved so far since the Feb. 18 landing and future ones.
Since NASA’s March 2020 Perseverance rover touched Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, mission controllers have advanced substantially as they prepare the rover for the unpaved road. Members of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission team in Southern California will discuss the “firsts” of the mission achieved so far and those to come in a media conference call at 3:30 p.m. EST (12:30 pm PST) on Friday, March 5th.
The audio of the conference call and the attached images will be streamed live on NASA’s YouTube JPL channel.
The debate over the rover’s progress will be:
- Robert Hogg, Deputy Mission Manager for Perseverance, JPL
- Anais Zarifian, Perseverance Mobility Testing Engineer, JPL
- Katie Stack Morgan, Assistant Scientist for the Perseverance Project, JPL
Media members and the public can ask questions on social media during the teleconference using #CountdownToMars.
Since landing, NASA’s largest and most sophisticated rover has so far gone through controls of all systems and subsystems and sent thousands of images from Jezero crater. These controls will continue in the coming days and the rover will make its first records. Each system check and milestone completed marks a significant step forward as the rover prepares for surface operations. The main mission is scheduled for a Martian year, or 687 Earth days.
To learn more about perseverance, visit:
https://nasa.gov/perseverance
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https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
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