[applause] >> welcome to the jet propulsion laboratory in southern california we have just landed the most sophisticated and most capable rover yet on the surface of mars. i am from the jpl news and i am your host as we gather reactions from eric key players from the landing. because of the coronavirus pandemic things will look different today but we have our masks and the layout is different but i want to introduce our speakers to you. standing on the floor we have nasa's acting administrator. also mike watkins director of jpl. also the perseverance project manager up on the stage nasa associated minister and the planetary science director matt wallace the deputy manager entry descent and landing lead, the perseverance project scientist and coming from the service operations area deputy project manager. over here a special group on a video conference a group of perseverance team members. we will be taking questions during this briefing if you're on the media and in the phone you will be put into the q. before i turn over the podium i want to take one minute to recognize what a thrill

. >> reporter: celebration at the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena. this is the fifth and biggest rover to be sent to mars. >> if they have them sent to mars, how could they live on mars? >> reporter: nasa aids provided key components like the heat shield and the photos. also are the names of the 85 people who died in the paradise fire in 2018. >> your memories ride with us on this voyage of exploration. >> reporter: a nasa engineer presented a plaque to the town of paradise. a name of the fire victims are on two chips inside the rover. >>> did we have a major upset with the st. mary's basketball team? we'll tell you about it now. >>> happening now, an investigation is under way after a zoom bomb incident in the east bay. oakland unified school officials say a small group of people disrupted the workshop with expletives and an obscene video. the superintendent will re-examine the online security measures. we're back in a moment. this is a no-nonsense message from three. small business insurance is usually so complicated, you need to be a lawyer to und

. >> reporter: celebration at the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena. the fifth and >> it's a great experiment, how could humans live on mars? >> reporter: nasa aims helped provide key components including the heat shield and a small copter to take high resolution photos. on board are the names of the 85 people who died in the paradise fire of 2019. just before the mission launched last year a nasa engineer presented a plaque to the town of paradise, the names of the fire victims are etched on two chips aboard the mars rover. sergio quintana, "nbc bay area news". >> pretty cool. >>> obscene zoom bobbing. next on "today in the bay," the east bay school meeting interruption and search for the culprits. >>> plus a live report from washington, d.c., on president biden's new immigration plan. the key offer it includes for thousands. we'll be right back. does your vitamin c last twenty-four hours? only nature's bounty does. new immune twenty-four hour plus has longer lasting vitamin c. plus, herbal and other immune superstars. only from nature's bounty. >>> a

you didn't need to be nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena joined a standing o. when perseverance landed on mars last week whereupon perseverance tweeted i'm safe on mars perseverance will get you anywhere and you can follow the rover on twitter at nasa persevered and while we are learning more about life there we are telling any. one who might be there about life here like the pictures cavemen drew on their walls and glimpses of ancient egypt depicted inside the pyramids we etched these images and cameras aboard the rover displaying earth's location in the solar system and depicting our planet's evolution with an atmosphere only $1100.00 ths of earth's and insufferable temperature extremes there it's unlikely that any e.t. looking mammals will read our greeting card but is there life on mars let's ask the co-author with j.l. pickering of the handsome picturing apollo 11 rare views and undiscovered moments and the space age presidency of john f. kennedy a rare photographic history longtime network space correspondent john business john the rovers bull's-eye is wh

going to mars, you have the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena. you've got nasa. and they are -- the federal government invests in it. texas is this weird only state that controls all of its energy, doesn't do energy sharing. i think the electric reliability council of texas is going to have a lot of lawsuits, you're going to have trial lawyers galore. looking at this. and, you know, even companies should be able to get hazard pay, people working at a grocery store or something that are weathering horrific conditions just to keep these cities humming. >> douglas, listen, there's so much in there. okay, they're not on the national grid, which is, you know, that's -- do that but then you get this. but they could have winterized all of that because there are wind turbines in places a lot colder than texas. they're running just fine. you know, the natural gas and oil and other places that are -- that gets a lot colder than texas, all running just fine. >> thank you, don, for saying that. that's the key. what they do in texas is they shortcut people. they're making a g

joining me from nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, california, is nbc news correspondent steveove this story. talk me through it. what's happening? give me everything. >> reporter: well, speaking for the aforementioned space geeks, as you mentioned, this is a huge, huge moment. the anticipation, the excitement is hanging in the air, it's palpable. one of the team members here described it almost as the super bowl of science. i can answer some of your questions, but let's in bring in somebody that's a little more qualified, i have jackie sly a robotics engineer on the project. jackie, thanks so much for joining us. just tell me what is this mission going to accomplish? this is essentially the search for any possible sign of ancient life on mars. how exciting is that and what exactly are you guys doing? >> it's so exciting. i have so many butterflies both about this landing and about the science work we're going to do. yes, we are looking for life on mars, we found so many great clues to mars life that we want to continue studying, we want to continue looking for water, but we ab

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ground controllers at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in pasedena celebrate. yeah, definitely celebrated nasa said perseveres landed on mars after. >>2203 days and 300 miles reporter nichole berlie has the highlights of the big day for nasa. >>cheers from mission control in should florida has nasa's perseverance rover has successfully landed on mars this continuing to and that trans middle including this little dirty because he got a glass covers over these these cameras perseverance's first image from the surface of this happened just seconds ago. >>perseverance will collect geological samples to try and determine if life ever existed on the red planet. those samples will eventually be brought back to earth. although it will take about a decade once back on earth will be analyzed for signs of ancient microscopic life. nasa's acting administrator thanking his team shortly after the landing to work through all the adversity. >>that goes and all the challenges echo landing a rover on mars. plus the challenges of covid and it's just an amazing accomplishment pers

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when it comes to entry, descent, and landing, al chen is the man in the hot seat at nas' jet propulsion laboratory11 minutes for radio signals to travel the speed of light from earth to mars-- too much lag time for chen and his teamto remotely pilot the rover. so perseverance must landau ton muffle. >> and that's kind of one of te central challenges, i think, of landing on mars. we can't participate. we can't guide it. we can't pilot it on its own. we have to train perseverance to do it on her own. >> reporter: it all culminates with what's called the sky train. retrorockets fire on the descent stage, and the rover is wenched down on the surface on tethers. it all may seem a little hair-brained, but the one time nasa tried it with the curiosity rover in 2012, it worked like a charm. perseverance is aiming for the jezero crater, which may hold the answer to the big question: did life once exist on the planet next door? laurie glaze heads nasa's planetary science division. >> jezero really stood out as a potential landing site because within that crater, we can see absolute evidence that there was a

it's a jet propulsion laboratory mission control room which was on pins and needles all day followingeat tones so it knew it was on track telemetry everything was going great. seven minutes of terror just expired and now everybody is waiting for the first image which i'm told will be a low resolution image from the martian surface probably a landscape shot and then all of the great high resolution images will be coming in over the next days, weeks and a couple of years. the rover launched back in july from kennedy space center in florida. and it's on track -- well it landed went 300 million miles over seven months and nasa is calling it the final dissent that seven minutes of terror. that's when it went through mars' atmosphere. 2800 degrees burning on that heat shield. come in 12,000 miles an hour and then slowed down giant parachute. landing crane with reverse thrusters and threaten dropped down to a gentle 2 miles per hour. and, again, they just confirmed that touchdown did in fact happen. it appears everything went smoothly and that this rover perseverance is going to be in great

teams at nasa and california's jet propulsion laboratory releasing the highest resolution pictures ever seen from the red planet. >> this is our first color front image from the surface of mars. >> and this moment just before touchdown as perseverance was gliding toward the surface, the rover equipped with 23 cameras that during its life span will be snapping photos of the other world. when perseverance touched done on thursday, it was celebration in mission control. >> touchdown confirmed. perseverance safely on the surface of mars, ready to begin seeking the sand for possible life. >> reporter: and liftoff. perseverance had traveled 300 million miles for seven months, moving at 50,000 miles an hour during its journey. then what's known as seven minutes of terror, the crew craft had to battle 2200 degree heat making an entry into the atmosphere. >> the only nation that's been able to do that. just incredible. >> reporter: president biden watching the landing from the white house, shortly afterwards calling the nasa acting administrator. >> hello, mr. president. i will. i will tell perc

nasa scientists shared the landing at the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena.long journey started last summer when the rover launched from florida and now scientists are hoping to determine if there was life on mars. ktvu christian captain joins us now with more on this historic mission christian lift off after eight years of planning and a nearly seven month trip through space. finally the moment nasa and science lovers had been waiting for that's all confirmed that service safe. surface of mine to begin speaking the sands of past life within minutes, the perseverance rover sending out its first photos of its new home. nasa engineer helen wine watching that moment, along with the rest of the world. it's still incredibly nerve racking. this is my third mars mission, and it doesn't get any easier in the next few days. the rover will begin its primary mission searching for signs of life past or present on the red planet. yeah. more advanced instrumentation. that's going to be part of it, and then we have a helicopter that's going to be flying on mars and then i t

landed on the red planet today sparking those celebrations by ground controllers at nasa's jet propulsion laboratoryn pasadena. perseverance is the biggest most advanced rover ever sent a nasa and now the rover's real work begins as it searches for any signs of life call burley has a closer look. >>cheers from mission control in should florida has nasa's perseverance rover has successfully landed on mars this continuing to and that trans middle including this little dirty because he got a glass covers over these these cameras perseverance's first image from the surface of this happened just seconds ago. >>perseverance will collect geological samples to try and determine if life ever existed on the red planet. those samples will eventually be brought back to earth. although it will take about a decade once back on earth will be analyzed for signs of ancient microscopic life. nasa's acting administrator thanking his team shortly after the landing to work through all the adversity. >>that goes and all the challenges echo landing a rover on mars. plus the challenges of covid and it's just an amazing acc

. >> hello, and welcome to nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in southern california where we have just landed the most sophisticated and most capable rover yet on the surface of mars, the perseverance rover. i'm zaire cook of jia cook and we get a glimpse of what's to come. because the coronavirus pandemic, everything's going to look a little different today. we have our masks on and the layout is a little different, but i want to introduce our speakers to you. so, standing on the floor of carmen auditorium we have steve jursic, nasa's acting administrator. mike watkins, the director of jpl. and then we also have john mcnami, perseverance's project manager. up on the stage, we have thomas, nasa's associated administrator for the science mission directorate. we have lori, nasa's planetary science director. matt wallace, the perseverance deputy project manager and al, entry and descent. ken farley, perseverance science project. and the deputy project manager. and over here we have a special group on our video conference, we have a group of the perseverance team members. all right. so we

he is a spacecraft design engineer, jet propulsion laboratories at nasa, he's designing the robot arm mars 2020. i'll never forget going down to jpl the first time i wanted to go see him. he's like he is just giddy. he is so ex-suitd. he goes, dad, man, these are the greatest engineers of the world. the smartest people of the year. awesome. i go how many levels is it up to professional track? he goes, 17. i go what level are you? he goes i'm 1. isn't that great? nowhere to go but up. i go i love you. i'm proud of you. give him a bear hug. if you get a sense i got a little space envy, you guessed right. that's why five years ago i actually bought a ticket on virgin galactic because i want to go into outer space. i don't know if the guys at the state department are going to let the under secretary partake in space tourism and cut out for a few weeks. but some day i'm going to do it. you know, i can't wait. i'm also proud to say that space is such a great priority for our president and he's reinvigorated with vice president pence, who is the national -- who is chairman of the national sp

nasa's team out ott the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, california -- can maceically, mission all of the surface software. everything's been looking good. the landing was absolutely flawless, and the highly anticipated helicopter, well, over the weekend it was checked out sending the right signals back to earth. so that appears to be ready to roll -- or fly -- and that should happen the first time, first flight in about 40 days. neil? neil: 23,000 pictures? that's more than i take on a trip, usually 1 out of 1,000 might come out okay. 23,000? really? >> reporter: that's a lot. and this is going to go on for at least two years, possibly maybe a decade. curiosity's still operating and sending data back from 2012. so all fingers crossed. neil: you're right. how do you pick and choose? what do you put in the album? phil keating, thank you very much. great job, my friend. >>> by the way, we are focusing here on earth at the selloff in the market, although well off the lows of the day. might have something to do, and i always look for this, what other firms are doing, is anyone buyi

carter evans followed it all at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, california. >> reporterd skycrane that lowered "perseverance" down to its new home. >> touch confirmed. safely on the surface of mars -- >> reporter: minutes after landing, the rover beamed back proof of life, two black and white photos from the red planet. what was it like seeing those pictures? >> it was amazing. >> reporter: while he was speaking to us, nasa's acting administrator, steve juryzick, got a call from his boss who watched the landing at the white house. >> congratulations, man. you know, that's the president, right. and so he was as psyched as i am. >> reporter: "perseverance" is the largest and most advanced rover ever built. it's jam packed with instruments and experiments like ingenuity. a four-pound helicopter that could prove it's possible to fly on another planet. but the main goal of this $2.4 billion mission is to collect samples that could contain evidence of past life. >> if this finds proof of life, everybody will say it's a great investment. >> thomas zurbuchen oversees the mission

it's the first nasa mars rover in nearly a decades, and the jet propulsion laboratory in california saysover ever. it launched from florida several months ago and is set to land at 3:55 eastern time this afternoon. because it takes about ten minutes to receive data from mars to earth, nasa won't know until a little bit after 4 will the landing is perfect or a crash. it's calling the final descent seven minutes of terror. perseverance will enter the atmosphere zipping at 12,000 miles an hour and then will slow down with a parachute, a landing crane with reverse thrusters and then drop down at a gentle 2 miles an hour on cables. the rover is equipped with 19 cameras and 2 microphones so that we will be able to not only see, but hear what being on mars sounds like. it will land in a crater which scientists believe is an ancient lake bed and, thus, could have evidence of previous microbial life. >> absolutely. yes, the scientists are looking for ed of ancient -- for ed of ancient life on the surface of mars. and just as importantly, it's a steppingstone towards human exploration of this plan

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astrophysicist vishnu street harm from regal park queens is on the mission at california's jet propulsion laboratoryneer for the super cam on the rover gathering among other things the first ever audio recordings he graduated from georgia tech, the first microphone on march that we can kind of hear how march going to sound like. >>and can do a lot of cool science with that. so really excited to have worked on that instrument. they're watching at the american museum of natural history on central park west. the planetarium is one of the most famous in the universe, it asks that big question about life out there somewhere the only thing that i would expect to see and i would be thrilled to see would be tiny little organisms jiggling around and moving around mike sarah is an astrophysicist and curator at the museum. he can't wait for the next step lasers on the rover will study rock microscopes take a look a drill goes into the ground to collect samples and then. >>that package will sit there waiting for another lander to calm retriever. >>to actually come pick it up and transport the samples back to pr

normally we would have been at the jet - we would have been at thejet propulsion laboratory in californiaafely. working from home or via mars. a whole new aspect. - safely. working from home or via - mars. a whole new aspect. touchdown happens, fingers crossed, and then the real work begins, i guess. what is it about this particular mission thatis is it about this particular mission that is so important?— that is so important? what scientists _ that is so important? what scientists really _ that is so important? what scientists really want - that is so important? what scientists really want are l that is so important? what - scientists really want are rocks back from mars. we don't think we can really discover life on mars with a robot and you cannot really analyse the rocks in detail, so the mission is the first in a series of missions that are aimed at bringing rocks from mars back to earth to be analysed in laboratories and what perseverance will do is explore this fantastic rater we think was once an ancient lake, the perfect place for microbes to develop in —— fantastic crater. and i

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. >> hello, and welcome to nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in southern california where we have just landed the most sophisticated and most capable rover yet on the surface of mars, the perseverance rover. i'm zaire cook of jia cook and we get a glimpse of what's to come. because the coronavirus pandemic, everything's going to look a little different today. we have our masks on and the layout is a little different, but i want to introduce our speakers to you. ,