NASA MEDIA TELECON ON MARS ROCK, Sept 10, 2025, virtual, 11:00 am ET

NASA will hold a media telecon on September 10, 2025 at 11:00 am ET to discuss analysis of a rock sample collected by the Mars Perseverance rover last year called Sapphire Canyon. It was collected in July 2024 from a set of rocky outcrops on the edges of Neretva Vallis, a river valley carved by water rushing into Jezero Crater long ago and is the subject of a forthcoming scientific paper.

Audio and visuals of the call will stream on the agency’s website at: https://www.nasa.gov/live

Participants are:

• Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy
• Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington
• Lindsay Hays, Senior Scientist for Mars Exploration, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters
• Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance Project Scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California
• Joel Hurowitz, planetary scientist, Stony Brook University, New York