Lynn Carter

Oh, Los Alamos.

They're the ones doing the laser, the laser LIBS spectroscopy.

Yeah, that's a good question.

That's like a major concern of our team and definitely a major concern of everyone who would be studying those samples in the laboratory.

We actually have no idea when people might come and get them.

The plan for Mars science is really in turmoil.

There's been not a coherent plan by the new administration.

So no one basically knows what the plan is.

So people try and plan to the best of their ability with no knowledge of what's going to happen.

So our plan is sort of now that they wanted to make so that they have tubes.

So we're at least sealing them.

We're sealing them in a tube.

And then the problem is that they might get hot sitting in the sun.

So we're going to try and find a place that's shady or someplace where we think there's a little bit of protection for these tubes.

How we're going to find that place

you know, what that would look like is something that we don't know and that people are still looking into.

And I suspect as soon as we choose a landing site, one of the things is going to be to look for where you want to put them.

Like, do you want to put them against a wall?

And I think finding safer places for them is going to be a major focus of the mission.

So we'd like to do a lot of remote sensing science.