WASHINGTON, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — NASA will host a digital media briefing at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 27, to share new scientific findings based mostly on observations from the company’s InSight Mars lander and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
Science group members from each missions will clarify how information and pictures from every spacecraft – one on the Red Planet’s floor and one orbiting above – contributed to the invention. They will share how the 2 missions labored collectively to affirm their observations. There can even be an replace on InSight’s photo voltaic vitality standing.
The digital briefing will livestream on NASA Television, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, in addition to the agency’s app. Watch reside on the company’s web site at:
Participants will embrace:
- Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters
- Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California
- Liliya Posiolova, MRO, orbital science operations lead at Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, California
- Ingrid Daubar, InSight influence science lead, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
To ask questions by cellphone, members of the media ought to e mail Rexana Vizza at [email protected] no later than two hours prior to the beginning of the occasion. Media and the general public can submit questions on social media throughout the briefing utilizing #AskNASA.
InSight landed on Mars in November 2018 to examine the planet’s deep interior. After practically 4 years, InSight has detected over 1,300 marsquakes, which might reveal particulars concerning the planet’s crust, mantle, and core. Well into an prolonged mission, the lander is steadily dropping energy as dust accumulates on its photo voltaic panels, and the mission is predicted to finish within the coming months.
MRO has studied the Red Planet’s environment, floor, and subsurface from orbit since 2006. The spacecraft’s cameras, spectrometers, and radar have revealed lively adjustments on the floor of Mars, places of historic liquid water, and beforehand unknown subsurface ice.
For extra details about InSight, go to:
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