NASA's newest Mars rover has successfully amassed its first rock sample for return to Earth, after last month's try got here up empty.
The Perseverance rover's leader engineer, Adam Stelzner, referred to as it an excellent center pattern.
"I've in no way been extra satisfied to peer a hole in a rock," he tweeted Thursday.
A month ago, Perseverance drilled into lots softer rock, and the pattern crumbled and didn't get inside the titanium tube. The rover drove a half of-mile to a better sampling spot to try again. Team individuals analyzed records and photographs before asserting fulfillment.
Perseverance arrived in February at Mars' Jezero Crater believed to be the home of a lush lakebed and river delta billions of years ago searching for rocks that could keep evidence of historical existence. NASA plans to launch greater spacecraft to retrieve the samples accrued via Perseverance; engineers are hoping to go back as many as 3 dozen samples in about a decade.
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