The Brief
- The Eaton Fire forced the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena to evacuate.
- Teams at ASU worked closely with the lab and their work on the Mars Perseverance Rover was halted during the evacuations.
- The teams are getting back to work, assisting with the mission to Mars as the fires start to die down.
PASADENA, Calif. – The wildfires in California impacted so many across the country.
We’re learning the widespread damage created issues far outside America, too. Problems that range as far as the surface of Mars.
Mission to Mars stunted by wildfires?
What we know:
Inside NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, they run a deep space network which connects many researchers across the world – including some at ASU – to the many space missions in our solar system.…