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There are many things the latest rover to reach Mars has been tasked with doing on location. Perseverance needs to look for signs of past microbial life ...
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It took just six weeks for the team to decide where to place the sample tubes, and now the tenth and final tube has been deposited.
NASA's Perseverance rover completed its 10-tube samples depot on Mars on Sunday, Jan. 29. NASA's Perseverance rover completed its ten tube samples deposit on the Red Planet, collecting an astounding range of Martian surface so they can be examined on Earth in the future.
NASA's Perseverance rover collected samples that will eventually return to Earth, but it's also depositing tubes around the Red Planet for safekeeping in case that return mission goes awry.