Tootfinder

The #Perseverance press conference panel consists of 5 NASA managers and 1 Mars researcher - so the topic is likely some follow-up to "the
discovery of a potential #biosignature" in an outcrop reported earlier this year in #spectroscopy method to hunt for microbial markers was discussed in March in https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00392.html

An analysis of a rock sampled by NASA's #Perseverance #Mars rover last year called “Sapphire Canyon” will be discussed in a press conference at the top of the hour: #Jezero Crater long ago.

Strong recommendation to watch the first 25 minutes of #InterstellarComet in public images from #Perseverance on #Mars - including a detailled discussion of all processing steps necessary to finally arrive at the stacked image https://x.com/astroferg/status/1974898186113438080

Interesting corollary to the #Perseverance discovery in the Bright Angel formation on #Mars making headlines 1 1/2 months ago: at a public talk in Bochum as part of a mathematics outreach event - #Life Detection scale #MarsSampleReturnMission the rating could jump up to 5 or 6 after lab analysis.
Green also remarked that the sample tubes dropped by Percy are up for grabs for *any* spacefaring nation capable of doing a MSRM - including China though they don't plan to go after the Percy samples with their upcoming #Tianwen3 mission (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianwen-3) as far as he has heard. And regardless of where they'll get their own samples they could advance the case for life, perhaps even extant, on Mars a lot - which Green feels has been all but made in the past decades of Mars research anyway. Oh, and he also thinks terraforming Mars is quite viable ...