NASA Teleconference About Mars Curiosity Rover’s Progress
NASA hosted a media teleconference to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover’s mission to Mars’ Gale Crater.
Topics include:
– CAP 2 (“Commissioning Activity Phase 2”)
– Robotic arm calibration
– MAHLI instrument
Participants:
– Michael Watkins, JPL, Curiosity mission manager
– Matt Robinson, JPL, lead engineer for Curiosity’s robotic arm testing and operations
– Joy Crisp, JPL, Curiosity deputy project scientist
– Aileen Yingst, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, deputy principal investigator for Curiosity’s Mars Hand Lens Imager
The actual teleconference starts around 01:50 and lasts for about 50 minutes:
