News media are invited to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to tour the Spacecraft Assembly Facility clean room to see Mars 2020 — NASA's next spacecraft headed to the Red Planet — and interview mission team members on Friday, Dec. 27. The clean room is where the rover was constructed and is undergoing final testing.
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This is the one and only opportunity for media to see the Mars 2020 mission components in JPL's clean room before it ships to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Space is limited; all media must RSVP in advance and be pre-approved.
While you're here, how about this:
Why Is the Red Planet Red? Chlorate May Oxidize Mars' Surface - Eos
Why is the red planet red? It is well known that it is iron oxides that color Mars' surface a reddish tint; however, the process(es) responsible for the oxidation of iron on Mars remain unknown.
Based on laboratory experiments, Mitra and Catalano [2019] provide a new insight into oxidation of iron on Mars. They focus on oxychlorine species, salts of chlorine and oxygen, that are globally distributed on Mars. Having compared with other oxidants, such as molecular oxygen, they suggest that chlorate, one of oxychlorine species, was effective to oxidize reducing iron in various aqueous environments on Mars.
Mission to Mars: No humans need apply
We may have to reframe our mental picture of Captain James T Kirk . Thus far, we've imagined the human entrusted with carrying our exploratory hopes and fears, however fictional they may be, into deep space as a heroic, square-jawed adventurer.
The real Captain Kirk, the ambassador from Earth who will travel to the farthest reaches of the solar system and the galaxy, is much more likely to be an assemblage of microprocessors and intelligent software, than a Spandex-clad space captain.
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