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NASA is slated to announce what it says is a series of firsts in its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission.
On Friday, mission team members from Southern California s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will hold their first news conference since the expedition began and the rover touched down on the red planet s surface in February.
The teleconference and visuals are set to stream live on NASA s JPL YouTube channel at 3:30 p.m. ET.
While not much is known about the news, in a Wednesday release NASA wrote that mission controllers have made substantial progress as they prepare the rover for the unpaved road ahead.
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NASA sMars 2020 Perseverance rover has sent back its first high-definition panorama, giving a 360-degree look from the planet s surface using its rotating Mastcam-Z instrument.
The picture is the rover s second panorama since Perseverance landed on the planet on Feb. 18. The rover s Navigation Cameras also on the mast captured another panorama on Feb. 20.
The newly-released picture, captured on Feb. 21, was made using a combination of 142 images. Perseverance has already beamed back thousands to Southern California s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
In it, the Jezero Crater rim and what NASA describes as the cliff face of an ancient river delta can be seen in the distance.