NASA’s Perseverance Team Assessing First Mars Sampling Attempt

Photo: This image taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover on Aug. 6, 2021, shows the hole drilled in a Martian rock in preparation for the rover’s first attempt to collect a sample. Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech. NASA Mars Exploration Program – August 6, 2021.

Data sent to Earth by NASA’s Perseverance rover after its first attempt to collect a rock sample on Mars and seal it in a sample tube indicate that no rock was collected during the initial sampling activity. […]

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