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Related: About this forumNASA's Perseverance rover has taken the 1st steps in decades-long dream of Mars sample return
By Meghan Bartels about 7 hours ago
Perseverance's Mars rock samples may even hide salt crystal time capsules.
An image taken by the Perseverance rover on Mars shows a rock called Rochette with holes where the rover obtained its first two samples. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has begun its out-of-this-world rock collection.
The rover, which is designed to search for signs of ancient life on Mars and to package up material for a future sample-return mission, made its first two successful sampling maneuvers on Monday and Wednesday (Sept. 6 and Sept. 8). NASA scientists describing the collection said they're thrilled with what they know so far about the two rock cores.
"This is a truly historic achievement, the very first rock cores collected on another terrestrial planet it's amazing," Meenakshi Wadhwa, Mars sample return principal scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and Arizona State University, said during a news conference held Friday (Sept. 10).
An image taken by the Perseverance rover on Mars shows a rock called Rochette with holes where the rover obtained its first two samples. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has begun its out-of-this-world rock collection.
The rover, which is designed to search for signs of ancient life on Mars and to package up material for a future sample-return mission, made its first two successful sampling maneuvers on Monday and Wednesday (Sept. 6 and Sept. 8). NASA scientists describing the collection said they're thrilled with what they know so far about the two rock cores.
"This is a truly historic achievement, the very first rock cores collected on another terrestrial planet it's amazing," Meenakshi Wadhwa, Mars sample return principal scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and Arizona State University, said during a news conference held Friday (Sept. 10).
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https://www.space.com/perseverance-mars-rover-first-two-samples?utm_source=notification
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NASA's Perseverance rover has taken the 1st steps in decades-long dream of Mars sample return (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Sep 2021
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Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)1. Very cool! P.S. same text is duped in this post ;) nt
krispos42
(49,445 posts)2. My company made key componets of the drilling system...
...INCLUDING the sample tubes themselves!
I am SO glad they work!!!
(They were a giant pain in the ass to make!)