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nasa's mars 2020 perseverance rover and

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the ingenuity mars helicopter

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have been busy after landing on the red

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planet a few weeks ago

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today we are joined by perseverance

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project scientist ken farley

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and ingenuity chief engineer bob balaram

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to get an update on what's happening

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with the rover and the helicopter

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bob can you give us the latest update on

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oh yes so we've been working on a fix to

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a problem that has prevented us from

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going into flight mode where we can spin

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the rotors up fast

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we have both a long-term fix that's

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making its way to the spacecraft

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as well as some workarounds that we sent

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on thursday

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and we just got the results on friday

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and we'll be analyzing those results

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to see you know what the high speeds

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spin look like

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and that should let us get back on track

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with our rest of our flight experiments

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and what does that mean for first flight

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i think it means that uh we'll be done

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with the commissioning if

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the results from this all look good and

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we'll then be really ready to

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take off on that first flight so it's

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good progress to have

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and we're looking forward to being in

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the flying phase as getting past the

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commissioning phase

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that's good to hear bob now can there's

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another technology demonstration gearing

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up on perseverance

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can you tell us about moxie and what it

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plans to do

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sure moxie is part of perseverance's

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technology demonstration payload as is

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the helicopter

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and moxie is a small device that will

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convert

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the carbon dioxide of the martian

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atmosphere into oxygen

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as a demonstration of this capability

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for for future

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missions that might bring astronauts to

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mars who would benefit

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greatly by not having to bring oxygen

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with them so moxie is a

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is a demonstration that this capability

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will actually work

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on mars and we're very excited as as

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part of the early parts of this mission

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to be testing out our new technologies

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and we expect that the

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first run of the of the moxie

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investigation will be within the next

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couple of weeks

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great and what science has perseverance

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been working on over the last week or so

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we have been studying rocks as we have

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have been investigating the area where

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the helicopter is going to fly

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and as we drove out to our observation

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point where we can watch the helicopter

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at a safe distance we've been exploring

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the rocks that are

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up close to the rover trying to

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understand whether they are

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volcanic rocks or sedimentary rocks were

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they produced by a volcano

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or were they deposited by water

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thank you thank you ken and thank you

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bob to

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get the latest follow at nasa jpl

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and at nasa persevere on social media

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for the latest updates

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take a deeper dive on the mission's

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website mars.nasa.gov

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perseverance where you can also find all

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the raw

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images being sent back by the rover and

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go to

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go.nasa.gov ingenuity