The bundle of instruments known as SuperCam on board the Perseverance
Mars rover has collected its first samples in the hunt for past life on the Red Planet, mission scientists said Wednesday.
The return to Earth years from now of the rocks and soil it retrieves will give scientists the Holy Grail of planetary exploration, Jean-Yves le Gall, president of France s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), which mostly built the mobile observatory, commented via a YouTube broadcast.
These pieces of
Mars , he said, may finally answer this fascinating and fundamental question: was there ever life elsewhere than Earth?
(Photograph:AFP)
The bundle of instruments known as SuperCam on board the Perseverance Mars rover has collected its first samples in the hunt for past life on the Red Planet, mission scientists said Wednesday.
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