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February 2023 - Perseverance: Two Years on Mars

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover looks back at its wheel tracks on March 17, 2022, the 381th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover looks back at its wheel tracks on March 17, 2022, the 381st Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

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Perseverance: Two Years on Mars

Feb. 16

Time: 7 p.m. PST (10 p.m. EST; 0300 UTC)

The Perseverance Rover has changed the way we look at Mars. Perseverance is investigating Jezero Crater – a region of Mars where the ancient environment may have been favorable for microbial life – probing the Martian rocks for evidence of past life. The rover carries an entirely new subsystem to collect and prepare Martian rocks and sediment samples that includes a coring drill on its arm and a rack of titanium sample tubes in its chassis. Throughout its exploration of the region, Perseverance will collect promising samples, seal them in tubes and store them in its chassis until depositing them on the Martian surface for retrieval by a future mission. We’ll talk with members of the Mars 2020 team about the past two years of operation and discovery.

Speaker(s):
Dr. Sunanda Sharma, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mars 2020, NASA/JPL

Host:
Nikki Wyrick, Office of Communications and Education, NASA/JPL

Co-Host:
Sarah Marcotte, Mars Public Engagement, NASA/JPL

Webcast:
Click here to watch the event live on YouTube

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