Navcam Panorama of the Perseverance Rover’s Deck: The navigation cameras, or Navcams, onboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of the rover’s deck on February 20, 2021. the stowed arm of the robber. Download image ›
Mission team members will participate in a virtual conference call to discuss the milestones achieved so far since the landing on February 18 and next.
Since NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, mission controllers have made significant strides in preparing the rover for the dirt road ahead. Mission team members from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California will discuss the “firsts” of the mission accomplished so far, which will come in a media conference call on Friday, March 5 at 3:30 pm EST (12:30 pm PST).
The teleconference audio and accompanying footage will be streamed live on the NASA JPL YouTube channel.
Discussing the rover’s progress will include:
- Robert Hogg, Deputy Mission Manager for Perseverance, JPL
- Anais Zarifian, Perseverance Test Bed Engineer, JPL
- Katie Stack Morgan, Deputy Project Scientist for Perseverance, JPL
Members of the media and the public can ask questions on social media during the conference call with #CountdownToMars.
Since landing, NASA’s largest, most advanced Mars rover to date has checked all systems and subsystems and returned thousands of images of Jezero Crater. These checks will continue in the coming days and the rover will make its first trips. Each completed system check and milestone marks an important step forward as the rover prepares for surface operations. The primary mission is scheduled for one Mars year, or 687 Earth days.
For more information on perseverance, visit:
https://nasa.gov/perseverance
and
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
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