Perseverance Completes Its Sample Depot After 2 Years on Mars
One of the NASA rover’s main jobs was to collect rock samples for eventual shipment to Earth.
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One of the NASA rover’s main jobs was to collect rock samples for eventual shipment to Earth.
Share Mars’s crust is thin, which suggests the planet once cooled itself through a kind of plate tectonics. NASA/JPL-Caltech Mars lander spots deep layers beneath the surface, offering clues to the planet’s formation Dec. 15, 2020 , 3:50 PM Two years ago, NASA’s InSight spacecraft alighted on the surface of Mars, aiming to glean clues to the planet’s interior from the shaking of distant earthquakes and deep heat leaking from its soil. Mars, it turned out, had other ideas. Its sticky soil has thwarted InSight’s heat probe, and in recent months howling winds have deafened its ...