On Demand Recording Available
One week before the scheduled landing of the Perseverance Rover on Mars, we invite you to join the ASCEND community for an exclusive briefing with members of the NASA mission, science, and technical team.
This 60-minute livestream broadcast will take place on 10 February, 1000–1100 hrs ET USA.
The briefing will preview these mission highlights:
- The complex Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) sequence of maneuvers to position Perseverance in the Jezero Crater
- The first flight of the Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity
- Digging into the Martian surface for soil, rocks, and core samples to return to Earth on a future mission
- Making oxygen from the Martian atmosphere
- Plus live Q&A.
