{"id":137592,"date":"2021-03-24T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=137592"},"modified":"2022-09-15T13:13:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T23:13:42","slug":"supercam-first-sounds-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/03\/24\/supercam-first-sounds-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars 2020 rover SuperCam presents first sounds, images"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Shiv Sharma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first Mars sounds and images via SuperCam, an instrument located on top of the Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars, were presented in an online press conference<\/a> on March 10 via YouTube. University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa researcher Shiv Sharma<\/strong> is a co-investigator on the SuperCam instrument team.<\/p>\n

This was the first opportunity for the Los Alamos National Laboratory<\/a> and France\u2019s National Centre for Space Studies<\/a> to show SuperCam data to the public, with the first half of the press conference in French and the second half in English. SuperCam is currently undergoing a series of tests designed to verify the operating status of all of its systems, part of an overall rover check-out phase which will last about three months.<\/p>\n

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Image from SuperCam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“We all at UH<\/abbr> were thrilled to hear the first sounds and see the first images of rocks on Mars taken by SuperCam,” said Sharma, at the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Institute of Geophysics and Planetology<\/a>. “In the next three months, we are looking forward to more discoveries, especially if the SuperCam finds past life on Mars’ surface.”<\/p>\n