NASA's Perseverance rover deposits first sample on Mars surface
Another spacecraft will capture the sample container and return it safely to Earth
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Another spacecraft will capture the sample container and return it safely to Earth
Filled with rock, the sample tube will be one of 10 forming a depot of tubes that could be considered for a journey to Earth by the Mars Sample Return campaign.
Perseverance touched down in the Jezero Crater, a dried-up river delta just to the north of the Martian equator - and a potential site for signs of ancient fossilised microbial life.
Over the past year, researchers mourned the loss of Arecibo and applauded the first helicopter flight on Mars. Plus, commercial spaceflight really took off.
/PRNewswire/ -- NASA's Perseverance rover today completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than a...