Participants in the teleconference include:
Acting NASA Administrator Sean DuffyNicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in WashingtonLindsay Hays, Senior Scientist for Mars Exploration, Planetary Science Division, NASA HeadquartersKatie Stack Morgan, Perseverance Project Scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern CaliforniaJoel Hurowitz, planetary scientist, Stony Brook University, New York
Since landing in the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater in February 2021, Perseverance has collected 30 samples. The rover still has six empty sample tubes to fill, and it continues to collect detailed information about geologic targets that it hasn’t sampled by using its abrasion tool. Among the rover’s science instruments is a weather station that provides environmental information for future human missions, as well as swatches of spacesuit material so that NASA can study how it fares on Mars.
Managed for NASA by Caltech, JPL built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover on behalf of the agency’s Science Mission as part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program portfolio.
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