**MARS 2020 MISSION UPDATES**
NASA sent the Perseverance rover to Mars to explore Jezero crater and search for evidence of ancient life. The rover launched successfully (beautifully!) from Cape Canaveral on July 30 at 7:50 am EDT (click here to re-watch) and touched down beautifully on February 18, 2021. Perseverance has been on Mars for almost two Earth years(!) and is doing great. We've collected fifteen rock samples (successfully) and have finished putting down our first cache of samples for Mars Sample Return! Can't wait to see these rocks in person in about a decade. Follow along here for updates or at NASA's Mars 2020 mission website. Twitter: @NASAPersevere Facebook: @NASAPersevere See links to interviews I have done about my involvement in the mission in Czaja Lab In The News (on the right). |
**Czaja Lab In The News**
UC and several local media outlets have featured my involvement on NASA's Mars 2020 mission and the upcoming launch on July 30, 2020. UC News WVXU Radio (web story and audio clip) WCPO Cincy Lifestyle (video) WCPO News WLWT (video) UC and Outside Magazine featured Andrew Gangidine and his work developing a trace element biosignature that could be applied to the search for life on Mars. We were also interviewed by WCPO ABC 9 for their Cincy Lifestyle program. UC Magazine Outside Magazine Cincy Lifestyle (video) UC featured my work with the Mars 2020 mission as a member of the Returned Sample Science Board and Landing Site Working Group. Subsequently Andrew Gangidine and I were interviewed on Cincinnati Edition on 91.7 FM WVXU. UC Magazine Cincinnati Edition (audio) (currently unavailable) Press for my paper in Geology on 2.52-billion-year-old deep water sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from South Africa: UC Magazine Live Science Phys.org Daily Mail online (UK) TimesLive (South Africa) |
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last updated: 04 June 2024
last updated: 04 June 2024