00:00We are in extraordinary times right now with the coronavirus pandemic, and yet we have, in fact, persevered.
00:07And we have protected this mission because it is so important.
00:10We declare this mission to be essential.
00:13For the first time ever, we're going to fly a helicopter on another planet.
00:18We call it Ingenuity.
00:20And, of course, Ingenuity is going to be a tech demonstrator for this particular mission.
00:26But in the future, it could transform how we do planetary science on these other worlds and eventually be a
00:34scout so that we can figure out where exactly do we need to send our robots.
00:39This is the first time in history when NASA has dedicated a mission to what we call astrobiology, the search
00:48for life, either maybe now or ancient life on another world.
00:53And, of course, when we go to the Jezero Crater, which is obviously a big crater on Mars, but it's
01:00also a former lake bed, and it had a river that flowed into it.
01:04And that river delta is a place where we believe there could be, not saying there is, we don't know,
01:09but there could have been at one point in time life.
01:13We're doing transformative science, really.
01:16For the first time, we're looking for signs of life on another planet.
01:19And as Thomas mentioned, for the first time, we're going to collect samples.
01:24It'll be part of, we hope, the first sample return from another planet.
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