NASA to provide update on ‘firsts’ in perseverance since landing on Mars – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program

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Mission team members participate in a virtual teleconference to discuss milestones achieved so far since the Feb. 18 disembarkation and those to come.

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Since NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landed at Jezero Crater on February 18, mission controllers have made substantial progress in preparing the rover for the unpaved road ahead. Members of the mission team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California will discuss the mission “firsts” accomplished so far and those to come during a media teleconference at 3:30 p.m. EST (12:30 p.m. PST) Friday March 5.

The audio of the conference call and accompanying visuals will be streamed live on NASA’s JPL YouTube channel.

Discussing the rover’s progress will be:

• Robert Hogg, Deputy Director of the Perseverance Mission, JPL
• Anais Zarifian, Perseverance Mobility Test Bench Engineer, JPL
• Katie Stack Morgan, Associate Scientist, Perseverance Project, JPL

Members of the media and the public can ask questions on social media during the conference call using #CountdownToMars.

Since landing, NASA’s largest and most sophisticated Mars rover has undergone checks on every system and subsystem and returned thousands of images from Jezero Crater. These checks will continue in the coming days and the rover will carry out its first tests. Every system check and every milestone taken is an important step forward as the rover prepares for surface operations. The main mission is scheduled for a Martian year, or 687 Earth days.

To learn more about perseverance, visit:

https://nasa.gov/perseverance

and

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

Contacts for news media
Gray Gravestone / Alana Johnson
NASA Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0668 / 202-358-1501
[email protected] / [email protected]

DC Agle
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
818-393-9011
[email protected]