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This composite of two images shows the hole drilled by NASA's Perseverance rover during its sucessful sample-collection attempt.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA will hold a virtual media briefing Friday, Sept. 10, at noon EDT to provide an update on the agencys Perseverance Mars rover, which recently completed its first successful rock sampling.
The event will be livestreamed on NASA Television, the NASA app, the agencys website, and multiple agency social media platforms.
The briefing will also discuss what the rovers instruments have learned about the rock from which the sample was taken, and implications for a future sample retrieval mission. Through the Mars Sample Return campaign, NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) are planning a series of future missions to return the rovers sample tubes to Earth for closer study.
Briefing participants include:
- Lori Glaze, director of NASAs Planetary Science Division at the agencys headquarters in Washington.
- Jessica Samuels, Perseverance surface mission manager, NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
- Matt Robinson, Perseverance strategic sampling operations team chief, JPL.
- Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance deputy project scientist, JPL.
- Yulia Goreva, Perseverance return sample investigation scientist, JPL.
- Meenakshi Wadhwa, Mars sample return principal scientist, JPL and Arizona State University.
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