WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — NASA will host digital information briefings, reside reveals, and actions the week of Feb. 15 to debate occasions surrounding the touchdown of its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. Touchdown on the Crimson Planet will happen about 3:55 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 18. Dwell touchdown commentary will start at 2:15 p.m. on NASA Television, the company’s website, the NASA app, and YouTube.
Because of the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the main target can be on digital alternatives for the media and public, with in-person alternatives onsite at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California restricted to members of the media who have already got been credentialed.
Perseverance, which launched July 30, 2020, will seek for indicators of historical microbial life, accumulate fastidiously chosen rock and regolith (damaged rock and dirt) samples for future return to Earth, characterize Mars’ geology and local weather, and pave the best way for human exploration past the Moon. It’s NASA’s fifth Mars rover and, if profitable, would be the company’s ninth Mars touchdown.
Perseverance is also carrying alongside a know-how experiment – the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter – which is able to try the primary powered, managed flight on one other planet.
Information Briefing and Televised Occasion Schedule
Information briefings will originate from JPL’s Von Karman Auditorium, however all media participation can be digital. Members of the media who wish to take part in any of the information conferences should contact Rexana Vizza ([email protected]) no later than one hour earlier than every briefing’s begin time to ask questions over a cellphone line. Members of the media and public additionally might ask questions on social media throughout the occasions utilizing #CountdownToMars.
All NASA TV information conferences can be out there on the company’s website and the NASA app. Briefing instances listed beneath are Japanese and are topic to alter, as are audio system:
Tuesday, Feb. 16
1 p.m. – Information convention: Mission Engineering and Expertise Overview, that includes:
- Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA affiliate administrator for science, NASA Headquarters
- Jennifer Trosper, Perseverance deputy venture supervisor, JPL
- Adam Steltzner, Perseverance chief engineer, JPL
- Erisa Stilley, Perseverance entry, descent, and touchdown programs engineer, JPL
- Trudy Kortes, director of know-how demonstrations, NASA’s House Expertise Mission Directorate (STMD), NASA Headquarters
- Jeff Sheehy, chief engineer, STMD, NASA Headquarters
- MiMi Aung, Ingenuity venture supervisor, JPL
3:30 p.m. – Information convention: Mission Science Overview, that includes:
- Lori Glaze, director, NASA’s Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters
- Ken Williford, Perseverance deputy venture scientist, JPL
- Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance deputy venture scientist, JPL
- Luther Beegle, principal investigator, Scanning Liveable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemical substances (SHERLOC) instrument, JPL
- Jim Bell, principal investigator, Mastcam-Z instrument, Arizona State College, Tempe
- Sylvestre Maurice, deputy principal investigator, SuperCam instrument, Institut de Recherche Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France
Wednesday, Feb. 17
1 p.m. – Information convention: Mission Touchdown Replace, that includes:
- Lori Glaze, director, NASA’s Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters
- Matt Wallace, Perseverance deputy venture supervisor, JPL
- Jennifer Trosper, Perseverance deputy venture supervisor, JPL
- Allen Chen, Perseverance entry, descent, and touchdown lead, JPL
- Kaitlin Liles, deputy chief engineer, Mars Entry, Descent, and Touchdown Instrumentation 2 (MEDLI2) sensor suite, NASA’s Langley Analysis Heart, Hampton, Virginia
- Ken Farley, Perseverance venture scientist, Caltech, Pasadena, California
3 p.m. – Information convention: Looking for Historic Life at Mars and in Samples Returned to Earth, that includes:
- Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA affiliate administrator for science, NASA Headquarters
- Bobby Braun, Mars Pattern Return program supervisor, JPL
- David Parker, director of human and robotic exploration, ESA’s European House Analysis and Expertise Centre (ESTEC), Netherlands
- Mary Voytek, director of NASA’s astrobiology program, NASA Headquarters
- Ken Williford, Perseverance deputy venture scientist, JPL
- Libby Hausrath, collaborating scientist for returned pattern science, College of Nevada Las Vegas
Thursday, Feb. 18
2:15 p.m. – Dwell touchdown commentary on the NASA TV Public Channel and the company’s web site, in addition to the NASA App, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch, Daily Motion, and THETA.TV.
As well as, an uninterrupted clear feed of cameras from inside JPL Mission Management, with mission audio solely, can be out there at 2 p.m. EST on the NASA TV Media Channel and on the JPLraw YouTube channel.
A 360-degree livestream of the Mars touchdown from inside mission management, together with touchdown commentary, can be out there on the NASA-JPL YouTube channel.
2:30 p.m. – “Juntos Perseveramos,” the reside Spanish-language touchdown commentary present, on NASA en Español’s YouTube channel.
About 3:55 p.m. – Anticipated time of Perseverance landing on Mars
No sooner than 5:30 p.m. – Put up-landing information convention originating from Von Karman Auditorium
Friday, Feb. 19
1 p.m. – Information convention: Mission standing replace
Monday, Feb. 22
2 p.m. – Information convention: Mission standing replace
To look at information conferences and commentary on-line, go to:
http://www.youtube.com/nasajpl/live
An entire listing of how to look at on-line will be discovered at:
Interview Alternatives
Dwell photographs and distant reside interviews by way of Zoom can be provided from 4 to 7 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 17, and 6 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 18.
To guide a reside shot window, media ought to full and submit the shape at: https://forms.gle/afTsM9PwHfbgZebX9.
Interview requests exterior of these home windows will be organized by filling out the shape at: https://bit.ly/mars-landing-media or by calling JPL’s Digital Information and Media Workplace at: 818-354-5011.
Further Assets
A Perseverance landing toolkit offers further particulars about all of the actions deliberate for touchdown week, in addition to further hyperlinks for studying extra in regards to the rover and helicopter.
Discover Mars 2020 Perseverance animations and videos and the b-roll media reel, in addition to a visualization of every step of entry, descent, and touchdown.
Press kits for the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter function deeper dives into the mission, science, and know-how.
For extra about Perseverance:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
and
For extra about Ingenuity:
https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter
SOURCE NASA
