Mars Perseverance with Dr. Amy Williams

The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover will search for signs of ancient microbial life, and advance the quest to explore the past habitability of Mars.The rover will collect core samples of Martian rock and soil, then store them in sealed tubes for pickup by a future mission that would ferry them back to Earth for detailed analysis. Perseverance will also test technologies to help pave the way for future human exploration of Mars.

If that weren’t cool enough, strapped to the rover's belly for the journey to Mars is a technology demonstration — the Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, which may achieve a "Wright Brothers moment" by testing the first powered flight on the Red Planet.

Dr. Amy Williams is an Assistant Professor of Geology at the University of Florida. Prior to joining the University of Florida, she was an Assistant Professor of Geology at Towson University, and a postdoctoral research associate at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Her research interests include the formation and preservation of physical and molecular biosignatures in terrestrial environments as an analog for putative biosignature formation on Mars. She has been a member of the NASA Curiosity rover science team since 2009, and is a Participating Scientist on NASA's Perseverance rover science team.

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