How Does NASA Choose Landing Sites on Far Away Planets? — Melanie R. Meadors Learn more about how scientists chose the landing site for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover!

Between 2013 and 2018, #NASA scientists and engineers were working hard to figure out the best place on Mars for the Perseverance Rover to land. Find out what went into this decision in my latest article! #MarsPerseverance #Mars2020 #Mars #space www.melaniermeadors.com/blog/2duhv38...

🚀 Five years ago today, #NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars. It is searching for signs of ancient life and collecting rock samples. One day, those samples may come back to Earth and help us learn if life ever existed on Mars. #Mars2020 #Astrobiology

NASA will soon find out if the Perseverance rover can really persevere on Mars https://arstechni.ca #MarsPerseverance #MarsSampleReturn #planetaryscience #solarsystem #Mars2020 #Science #Space #Mars #NASA

Magnifique interview d' #Agnès.COUSIN, #martienne sur la mission #Mars2020/ #Persévérance avec des explications lumineuses sur l' #exploration #géologique de la planète #Mars dans & autour du cratère #Jezero, dont l'intrigante « roche-léopard ».
Vidéo <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykT0I339fXU>
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NASA’s Perseverance rover carries Raman spectroscopy tech co-designed by LaDIS’s ERICA group. Built to analyse Martian minerals and advance diagnostics, environmental monitoring & materials science on Earth.

#mars2020 #perseverancerover #spaceexploration #ladis #uva

Rock discovery contains ‘clearest sign’ yet of ancient life on Mars, NASA says | CNN Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars may have potentially been made by ancient life.

Was there life on Mars? Super exciting discovery by the Perseverance rover!
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#NASA #MARS2020 event concludes. For Playback : www.youtube.com/watch?v=-StZ...

#NASA #MARS2020 Q: What are the possible non biologic indicators? A: Mud and the organic matter combined under the right conditions you could heat the rock up and have it produce that in a mineral phase and we looked to see if these rocks WERE cooked, and we used the instruments on the Rover ...

#NASA #MARS2020 Mission hasn't changed. Fox: We're not fogetting about samples we have the samples form OSIRIS-REX, & Apollo, the Peserverance samples carefully curated and we want to bring them back the right way

#NASA #MARS2020 - Duffy - Science isn't going away at NASA; we have Earth. Science missions mandated by Congress, and I believe we have the funds to do thef we need more, I'll ask for it. The President is interested in space, he's excited about space. THIS is bipartisan, people are excited...

#NASA #MARS2020 - Q: China is planning their sample return in 2028. Is that a concern? A: Duffy - we're running our plan, making the right call for America & our partners, we have to keep pushing, but want to make sure we're making the right decisions, want to look at $$$ , resources are precious...

#NASA #MARS2020 Duffy - does this change the mission? we are about Manned , human exploration. We study our own atmosphere to learn what we can with other atmospheres elsewhere in our galaxy

#NASA #MARS2020 We threw the entire suite of science on board the rover at this sample. Still in the midst of analyzing the geological setting on this sample in terms of what we can do with the rover, we again threw the entire science payload at it.

#NASA #MARS2020 say lets forget about Mars, we want to get these back but in the best way possible.

#NASA #MARS2020 - Q: There are possible other explanations for these materials & the only way to get this right is to get the samples back, & yet the Administration wants to cancel MSR? A: Duffy, well, can we look at this and do it faster and cheaper? This is a 30-year process. The President didn't

#NASA #MARS2020 Duffy - we are here to say this was exciting and the data has been pressure tested.

#NASA #MARS2020 - Q: Was simular to what was reported a while back ago last summer what has changed? A Hurowitz- It allowed us to gater more data on what the biosignatures are and want to get all of the data together, inteerrogate the data to go though the peer review process,

#NASA #MARS2020 - Q: What is the latest on sample retrieval? A: Duffy - we're looking aty how we get this samople back this is 30+ yrs of exploring Mars, we will look at our budget, what is the best way to do it thats what we're thinking through at the moment

#NASA #MARS2020 - Q&A Starts.

#NASA #MARS2020 - Lindsay Hayes - Peer review is the next step in this process, want to make this available to the entire community for study. What we're describing here is the potential for a biologic, not one itself. Our exploration themes for mars shown in the graphic

#NASA #MARS2020 - Mars 2020 rover at Cheyava Falls ( Joel Hurowitz talking saw these very fine layers of musty readsone, saw these dark textural featurtes in these rocks thought there was some sort of chemical reactions wanted to see if there was a biological reason for this

#NASA #MARS2020 - Lake Angel outcrop was formed disctict outcrop form billions of years of winds and weathering cycling. Rover explored Cheyava Falls

#NASA #MARS2020 Rover landed at Jezero crater in 2021 fest that this was the best place in seeking anchient life on Mars, selected because it has exposed the oldest rocks anywhere in the solar system, at a time where life was enrging on Earth and may have on Mars as well.

#NASA #MARS2020 - Habitable Worlds will help us look for those habitable worlds it will be the most powerful telescope we've ever launched

#NASA #MARS2020 - So how does NASA search for Life? We have Europa Clipper to see if its sub-surface ocean may support life. Then there is Dragonfly to explore Titian. Then there is Habitable Worlds; we know there is an average of one planet for each star in the sky.

#NASA #MARS2020 - Fox: It's kind of like seeing leftovers from a meal, we have the first result, and we are asking the world to look at it. We want to understand the planet Mars so we are ready to send humans there, and perhaps bring back samples. NASA studies don't happen at random...

#NASA #MARS2020 - Nicky Fox - First image of the leopard spotted rock, the team has done analysis and they may have been made by some sort of ancient life on Mars. It's a signature, a leftover sign, not life itself, nothing current there.

#NASA #MARS2020 - Duffy saying that the information from Mars 2020 was vetted and the explanation MIGHT be biological. Duffy is going through the Artemis Mission and saying the Moon is the first step to Mars.

#NASA #MARS2020 - Duffy For the last 30 yrs NASA has been exploring Mars in the past we thought we found signs of life, we put it to the science community & we've discovered that it might be due to something else. (Duffy saying Mars 2020 was launched during Trump's 1st Administration)

Placard with the Mars 2020 Rover on the surface of Mars: NASA to Share Details of New Perseverance Mars Rover Finding: News Conference

Participants in the news conference include: - Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy - NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya - Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters - Lindsay Hays, senior scientist for Mars Exploration, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters - Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance project scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Joel Hurowitz, planetary scientist, Stony Brook University, New York

#NASA #MARS2020 - Event Starting, Watch/Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-StZ...