Perseverance rover collects 2nd Mars sample (photos)
By Mike Wall about 3 hours ago
Perseverance drilled another hole in the Red Planet rock dubbed 'Rochette.'
NASA's Perseverance rover has collected two drilled-out samples from this Red Planet rock, which the mission team calls "Rochette." (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA's Perseverance rover has now socked away two Red Planet samples.
Perseverance collected a drilled-out core of a Martian rock dubbed "Rochette" and sealed the sample in its designated titanium tube, mission team members announced via Twitter on Wednesday (Sept. 8).
The success came just four days after the car-sized rover collected its first-ever Martian sample, which was also cored from Rochette.
Perseverance landed inside the Red Planet's 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater on Feb. 18. The six-wheeled robot's chief tasks are hunting for signs of ancient Mars life and collecting and caching dozens of samples, which will be brought to Earth by a joint NASA-European Space Agency campaign a decade or so from now.
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