The initial discovery of this quasar (given the identity J1342 +0928) came to light thanks to the mining of three large
area surveys: the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) that is being carried out with the Dark Energy Camera on the National Science Foundations Blanco 4 - m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, NASAs Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (ALLWISE), and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Sur
area surveys: the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) that is being carried out with the Dark Energy Camera on the National
Science Foundations Blanco 4 - m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile,
NASAs Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (ALLWISE), and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large
Area Sur
Area Survey.
Julio E Valdivia - Silva, SETI Researcher Associate of
Nasa, who is leading the project's
science team, added: «I am excited to put potatoes on Mars and even more so that we can use a simulated Martian terrain so close to the
area where potatoes originated.»