NASA will hold a virtual media briefing Friday, Sept. 10, at noon EDT to provide an update on the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover, which recently completed its first successful rock sampling.

The event will be livestreamed on NASA Television, the NASA app, the agency’s website, and multiple agency social media platforms.

The briefing will also discuss what the rover’s instruments have learned about the rock from which the sample was taken, and implications for a future sample retrieval mission. Through the Mars Sample Return campaign, NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) are planning a series of future missions to return the rover’s sample tubes to Earth for closer study.

Briefing participants include:

Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, NASA HQ.

Jessica Samuels, Perseverance surface mission manager, NASA JPL.

Matt Robinson, Perseverance strategic sampling operations team chief, NASA JPL.

Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance deputy project scientist, NASA JPL.

Yulia Goreva, Perseverance return sample investigation scientist, NASA JPL.

Meenakshi Wadhwa, Mars sample return principal scientist, NASA JPL & ASU.