MIT heads to Mars!

Perseverance will carry a sophisticated system for selecting, coring, caching, and preserving rock and soil samples to someday bring back to Earth. Professor of geobiology Tanja Bosak and professor of planetary sciences Ben Weiss, both from the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), are participating scientists who will work with this system to help choose which samples from the Martian surface to collect and analyze.

MIT News: http://news.mit.edu/2020/perseverance-and-little-moxie-mit-going-to-mars-0729

NASA launch info: https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8719/nasa-invites-public-to-share-excitement-of-mars-2020-perseverance-rover-launch/

Mission info: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

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MIT heads to Mars!