This artist’s concept features NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars’ past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA has announced that they will hold a briefing to discuss the Curiosity rover’s analysis of the first sample of rock powder ever collected on Mars.
NASA will hold the news conference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT), Tuesday, March 12.
The briefing, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency’s website.
The participants will be:
- Michael Meyer, lead scientist, Mars Exploration Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington
- John Grotzinger, Curiosity project scientist, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
- David Blake, principal investigator for Curiosity’s Chemistry and Mineralogy investigation, NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
- Paul Mahaffy, principal investigator for Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars investigation, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
During a two-year prime mission, researchers are using Curiosity’s 10 science instruments to assess whether the Gale Crater area on Mars ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life.
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