Perseverance's Sample Tube Looks Clean: This image, taken by the Mastcam-Z camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on Jan. 20, 2022, shows the rover successfully expelled the remaining large ...
Even the director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory thinks the Perseverance rover's rock sample tube looks like it belongs in a galaxy far, far away. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets ...
The Perseverance rover's first sample-snagging attempt didn't go according to plan. The car-sized Perseverance landed inside the Red Planet's Jezero Crater this past February with two main tasks: to ...
Second time's the charm. Sample tube 266 contains the rover's first rock, which NASA hopes to bring back to Earth on future missions for further study. Reading time 2 minutes For the Perseverance Mars ...
Marvels of engineering, the rover’s sample tubes must be tough enough to safely bring Red Planet samples on the long journey back to Earth in immaculate condition. The tubes carried in the belly of ...
The team has made good progress implementing the initial recovery steps outlined in last week’s blog. Our first success: The upper two pebbles were ejected from the bit carousel during a test. This is ...