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The final sample of Mars dirt was dropped by NASA’s Perseverance rover
NASA’s Perseverance Rover has dropped the last of 10 sample tubes on the surface of Mars, thereby completing humankind’s “first sample depot on another world”. Six weeks ago, Perseverance deposited titanium tubes filled with samples of rock and dust on Mars, to be sent to Earth for further study. The depot will include crater floor…
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The Mars rover will be the first to deliver samples to Earth.
NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is set to send back the first-ever sample returns from Mars, including four volcanically derived rocks that were collected by the roving Perseverance spacecraft. Samples will also be sent back to Earth to be used to determine the age of rocks from a particular place on Mars. Mars Ascent Vehicle…
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The first rock samples for delivery to Earth will be taken by the NASA Mars rover.
NASA’s Perseverance rover has deposited samples in its “Sample Depot” in the Jezero Test Area to begin a process that will create a cache of back-up samples that will be safe if something goes catastrophically wrong as the rover continues to explore Je zero. “The samples for this depot, and the duplicates held aboard Perseverance,…