# NASA’s Perseverance Team Assessing First Mars Sampling Attempt

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/nasas-perseverance-team-assessing-first-mars-sampling-attempt/
- Published: 2021-08-14T10:00:42-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at mars.nasa.gov