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NASA engineers have begun testing several robotics systems in preparation for the return of rock and sediment samples being collected on the surface of Mars by the Mars Perseverance rover.
One of the more ambitious things the Perseverance rover currently exploring the surface of Mars has been doing is gathering samples of Martian rocks and soil,
Teams across multiple NASA centers and the European Space Agency are working together to prepare a set of missions that would return the samples being collected by the Mars Perseverance rover safely back to Earth.
Teams are working to prepare missions to bring the samples collected by the Mars Perseverance rover back to Earth.
Hear NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Zap Its SuperCam Laser on Red Planet On 3/11/21 at 4:29 AM EST NASA's latest Mars rover, Perseverance, has beamed the first acoustic recording of laser sounds taken from the red planet back to Earth. The U.S. space agency said an audio file obtained from an instrument called SuperCam contained sounds of a laser impacting its target—a rock formation named "Máaz" that was approximately 10 feet away from the exploration rover—on March 2. The recording contains sounds of about 30 impacts, heard in a series of pops or clicks. It is used to identify and clas...