02-19-2021, 11:28 PM
The other day TomK mentioned one of the researchers working with the Mars rover was an old friend. She teaches at U of Hawaii, along with others at Manoa who are part of the Perseverance rover team. They are in the Geophysics & Planetology Department, so I’m interested in whether there will be any parallels noted or discovered between the Martian geological landscape and Puna.
The rover landed successfully yesterday, and has sent back several photos from the surface, as well as one taken from the lander just a few feet before wheels on the ground.
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists watched as the most sophisticated rover ever sent to Mars successfully landed on the red planet via NASA TV. Now they will start operating scientific instruments to search for signs of ancient life.
Sarah Fagents, a researcher at UH Mānoa’s Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) and volcanologist with the Mastcam-Z camera team,
Shiv Sharma, HIGP researcher and co-investigator on the SuperCam instrument team,
Francesca Carey, a HIGP graduate student, and other UH scientists and graduate students.
Using scientific instruments, UH scientists will search for signs of ancient microbial life, characterize the planet’s geology and climate, and collect carefully selected rock and sediment samples for possible return to Earth by a future mission.
UH scientists will be operating the rover around Jezero Crater, roughly a 6-mile region for the next two years, to search for clues about past life on Mars.
http://www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=11167
Photo before landing:
https://twitter.com/nasapersevere/status...18240?s=21
The rover landed successfully yesterday, and has sent back several photos from the surface, as well as one taken from the lander just a few feet before wheels on the ground.
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists watched as the most sophisticated rover ever sent to Mars successfully landed on the red planet via NASA TV. Now they will start operating scientific instruments to search for signs of ancient life.
Sarah Fagents, a researcher at UH Mānoa’s Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) and volcanologist with the Mastcam-Z camera team,
Shiv Sharma, HIGP researcher and co-investigator on the SuperCam instrument team,
Francesca Carey, a HIGP graduate student, and other UH scientists and graduate students.
Using scientific instruments, UH scientists will search for signs of ancient microbial life, characterize the planet’s geology and climate, and collect carefully selected rock and sediment samples for possible return to Earth by a future mission.
UH scientists will be operating the rover around Jezero Crater, roughly a 6-mile region for the next two years, to search for clues about past life on Mars.
http://www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=11167
Photo before landing:
https://twitter.com/nasapersevere/status...18240?s=21