A Martian Roundtrip: NASA's Perseverance Rover Sample Tubes – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
A Martian Roundtrip: NASA's Perseverance Rover Sample Tubes Perseverance's Sample Tubes Ready for Mars: One key activity for NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, which is on its way to the Red Planet, will be to collect samples of Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust) for future return to Earth. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Download video › Marvels of engineering, the rover's sample tubes must be tough enough to safely bring Red Planet samples on the long journey back to Earth in immaculate condition. The tubes carried in the belly of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover are destined to...
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