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  • Trek is a NASA web-based portal for exploration of Mars. This portal showcases data collected by NASA at various landing sites and features an easy-to-use browsing tool that provides layering and viewing of high resolution data.
  • NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will look for signs of past microbial life, cache rock and soil samples, and prepare for future human exploration.

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Archived On-Demand Recordings

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April 19, 2021News Briefing: Mars Helicopter Post-Flight
Channels that carried the live broadcast include:
YouTube and Facebook.
Participants are:
- Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate
- Michael Watkins, JPL director
- MiMi Aung, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter project manager at JPL
- Bob Balaram, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter chief engineer at JPL
- Håvard Grip, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter chief pilot at JPL
- Justin Maki, Perseverance Mars rover imaging scientist and deputy principal investigator of Mastcam-Z instrument at JPL
Replay on YouTube
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April 19, 2021Live Broadcast: Mars Helicopter First Test Flight Results
Channels that carried the live broadcast include:
YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Twitch, and NASA App.
Replay on YouTube
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April 15, 2021Taking Flight: How Girls Can Grow Up to be Engineers -
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April 9, 2021News Briefing: Mars Helicopter Pre-Flight
Channels that carried the broadcast include:
YouTube and Facebook.
Replay on YouTube
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April 8, 2021Experts Discuss NASA's Mars Helicopter - Talk for StudentsReplay on YouTube
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April 5, 2021Month of Ingenuity - Helicopter Flight PreviewReplay Webinar
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April 5, 2021Mars Helicopter Live Q&A: One Step Closer to First FlightReplay on YouTube
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March 23, 2021News Briefing: Preview First Mars Helicopter Flights
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Channels that carried the broadcast include:
YouTube, Facebook, NASA Television, and NASA App
Replay on YouTube
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March 11, 2021Live Public Talk: Helicopters in Space
Replay on YouTube
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March 8, 2021Taking Flight: How Girls Can Grow Up to be Engineers
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March 5, 2021News Telecon: Rover Update on Perseverance 'Firsts' Since Landing
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Replay on YouTube
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Feb. 25, 2021Panoramic View of Landing Site Q&A
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Channels that carried the broadcast include:
YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Twitch, Daily Motion, and NASA App
Replay on YouTube
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Feb. 22, 2021News Briefing: Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Update
Channels that carried the broadcast include:
YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch, Daily Motion, ThetaTV, and NASA App
Replay on YouTube
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Feb. 19, 2021NASA Science Live: We Landed on MarsReplay on YouTube
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Feb. 19, 2021News Briefing: Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover UpdateReplay on YouTube
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Feb. 18, 2021Post-Landing News BriefingReplay on YouTube
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Feb. 18, 2021Landing Broadcast: Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars
Channels that carried the broadcast include:
YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitch, Daily Motion, Theta.TV, and NASA App
Spanish-language show
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Clean feed of mission control on YouTube
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360-degree stream on YouTube
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Feb. 18, 2021Landing Day Live Stream for StudentsReplay on YouTube
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Feb. 17, 2021News Briefing: Searching for Ancient Life at Mars and in Samples Returned to EarthReplay on YouTube
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Feb. 17, 2021News Briefing: Mission Landing UpdateReplay on YouTube
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Feb. 17, 2021Elementary School Students – Countdown to LandingReplay on YouTube
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Feb. 16, 2021News Briefing: Mission Science OverviewReplay on YouTube
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Feb. 16, 2021News Briefing: Mission Engineering and Technology OverviewReplay on YouTube
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Feb. 16, 2021Behind-the-Scenes Tour of JPL - Virtual NASA Social Q&AReplay on Facebook
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Feb. 16, 2021Middle School Students – Countdown to LandingReplay on YouTube
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Feb. 16, 2021High School Students – Countdown to LandingReplay on YouTube
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Feb. 12, 2021Preview the Perseverance Mars Rover Landing (live demo + Q&A)Replay on Twitch
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Feb. 5, 2021Spanish: Live Chat with Fernando Abilleira of the Mars 2020 TeamReplay on YouTube
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Feb. 2, 2021Ask an Astrobiologist: Mars 2020 panel episodeReplay on Facebook
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Jan. 27, 2021News Briefing: Preview to Mars Landing
Replay on YouTube
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Jan. 14, 2021Introducing the Mission to Mars Student Challenge
Replay on YouTube
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Oct. 22, 2020 Behind the Spacecraft — Meet NASA's Eric Aguilar
Eric Aguilar, Mars 2020 Technical Group Supervisor
Replay on YouTube
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Sept. 15, 2020Behind the Spacecraft — Meet NASA's Diana Trujillo
Diana Trujillo, Mars 2020 Phase Lead, Robotic Arm Science
Replay on YouTube
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Aug. 27, 2020Behind the Spacecraft — Meet NASA's Michelle Tomey Colizzi
Michelle Tomey Colizzi, Mars 2020 Aeroshell Vehicle Lead
Replay on YouTube
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*Schedule is preliminary and subject to changes. All news briefings will be broadcast and streamed on NASA TV and this page.


For Media

News briefings and launch commentary will be streamed on NASA TV, NASA.gov/live, YouTube.com/NASAJPL and Ustream.tv/NASAJPL. On-demand recordings will also be available on the YouTube and Ustream pages after the live events have finished.
NASA TV channels are digital C-band signals carried by QPSK/DVB-S modulation on satellite Galaxy-13, transponder 11, at 127 degrees west longitude, with a downlink frequency of 3920 MHz, vertical polarization, data rate of 38.80 MHz, symbol rate of 28.0681 Mbps and 3/4 FEC. A Digital Video Broadcast-compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder is needed for reception.
For more information about NASA TV's programming schedule, visit www.nasa.gov/ntv.

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SOLS ON MARS

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Quick Facts

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  • Mission Name: Mars 2020
  • Rover Name: Perseverance
  • Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.
  • Launch: July 30, 2020
  • Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars
  • Tech Demo: The Mars Helicopter is a 30-day technology demonstration, hitching a ride on the Perseverance rover.
  • Fact Sheet | Press Kit

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See the latest weather report from the Perseverance rover at Jezero Crater.

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This web experience lets you hear what a person might sound like on the Red Planet. You can even record your own greeting and hear how you'd sound on Mars.

A Month of Ingenuity: The Mars Helicopter

The Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, is a technology demonstration to test powered flight on another world for the first time over a 30-Martian-day experimental window.
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Meet the Martians

Meet some of the team members behind the Perseverance rover

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Entering the Martian Atmosphere (Illustration)

Explore the Landing Site

Explore Jezero Crater using this interactive map that lets you zoom in and see where the Perseverance rover is located.
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