Watch reside right this moment time: NASA previews the launch of its Mars Perseverance rover @ 2 pm ET

NASA will discuss the upcoming launch of its subsequent Mars rover in a new conference with newshounds right this moment time (June 17) at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT). You are going to be ready to ogle it reside within the window above, courtesy of NASA TV.

The Perseverance rover (formerly identified as Mars 2020) is scheduled to launch to the Crimson Planet on July 20, 2020. 

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From NASA:

NASA leadership and a panel of scientists and engineers will preview NASA’s subsequent mission to the Crimson Planet, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, at a media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 17. The reside briefing will high-tail on Facebook, Ustream, YouTube, Twitter, NASA Tv and the company’s web site.

Perseverance is a robotic scientist weighing proper beneath 2,300 kilos (1,043 kilograms). The rover’s astrobiology mission will sight for indicators of previous microbial existence on Mars, signify the planet’s climate and geology, catch rock and soil samples for future return to Earth, and pave the manner for human exploration of the Crimson Planet.

Briefing contributors would possibly be:

• NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine
• Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington
• Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance deputy mission scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California
• Matt Wallace, Perseverance deputy mission manager at JPL
• Luis Dominguez, Perseverance deputy electrical integration and take a look at lead at JPL
• Omar Baez, launch director in NASA’s Originate Products and services Program at NASA’s Kennedy Home Heart in Florida.

To catch part within the call, media must RSVP by midday Tuesday, June 16, to Rexana Vizza or Tag Petrovich of JPL’s Digital News and Media Keep of business at [email protected] or [email protected] or call 818-354-5011. Legitimate media credentials are required. Media and the final public additionally would possibly perchance perchance additionally ask questions about social media at some level of the briefing the use of #AskNASA.

The mission is scheduled to launch from Home Originate Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Power Situation in Florida at 9: 15 a.m. EDT (6: 15 a.m. PDT) July 20. The launch is managed by NASA’s Originate Products and services Program. This would perchance perchance additionally land at Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.

For more about Perseverance scamper to:

https://nasa.gov/perseverance

‘ISS Reside!’ Tune in to the rental region

Procure out what the astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the Global Home Situation are as much as by tuning in to the “ISS Reside” broadcast. Hear conversations between the crew and mission controllers on Earth and ogle them work contained within the U.S. segment of the orbiting laboratory. When the crew is off duty, possibilities are you’ll additionally revel in reside views of Earth from Home. You are going to be ready to ogle and listen within the window beneath, courtesy of NASA.

From NASA:

“Reside video from the Global Home Situation entails inside views when the crew is on-duty and Earth views at diversified times. The video is accompanied by audio of conversations between the crew and Mission Preserve watch over. This video is better on hand when the rental region is alive to with the ground. All through ‘lack of signal’ sessions, viewers will gaze a blue screen.

“For the rationale that region orbits the Earth once each and every 90 minutes, it experiences a first light or a sundown about each and every 45 minutes. When the region is in darkness, external camera video would possibly perchance perchance additionally seem murky, but can each and every every so continuously present spectacular views of lightning or metropolis lights beneath.” 

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