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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Shows Off Collection of Mars Samples

BryarBy BryarFebruary 15, 2023Updated:February 15, 2023No Comments3 Mins Read
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Even space robots understand exactly what the expression “pictures or maybe it did not happen” means. NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover supplied a view of its recently finished sample depot – a huge turning point for the mission as well as humanity’s very first collection of samples on another planet. The panorama, stitched from 368 pictures sent to Earth, displays over 30 days of careful placement as well as mapping of 10 titanium tubes.

Of these, 8 are stuffed with regolith and rock (broken rock as well as dust), one is an atmosphere test along with one is a “witness” tube. The rover took photos of the depot with the Mastcam-Z camera on the top part of its mast, or “head,” on Jan. 31, 2023. The color was modified to display the Martian surface roughly as it will appear to the human eye.

An annotated version of the portrait captured by NASA’s Perseverance shows the location of the 10 sample tubes in the depot. The “Amalik” sample closest to the rover was about 10 feet (3 meters) away; the “Mageik” and “Malay” samples farthest away were approximately 197 feet (60 meters) from the rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

The depot is a backup collection of samples which may be recovered later on by the Mars Sample Return campaign, a joint effort between ESA and NASA (European Space Agency) which aims to deliver Mars samples to Earth for better study. On Dec. 21, 2022, the rover started constructing the depot, exactly spacing the tubes in case they have being retrieved at a later date.

The main tubes are situated in the belly of Perseverance, which might pass them as part of the plan together with later samples taken throughout the quest to a Sample Retrieval Lander. In the event that anything at all should happen on the rover to stop it from supplying tubes straight to the lander, samples might be retrieved from the depot instead. (Learn about the 18 samples collected to date)

This photomontage shows each of the sample tubes deposited by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover at the “Three Forks” sample depot, as viewed by the WATSON camera on the end of the rover’s robotic arm. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Perseverance made the depot at “Three Forks,” an area inside Jezero Crater. Vast amounts of years back, a river flowed into the crater, carrying sediment which formed a high, fan shaped delta which the rover will get up in the weeks ahead.

Even though the Martian surface has become chilly, dry, and typically inhospitable to life, ancient Mars was probable comparable to Earth – and also might have supported microbial life, if any actually created on the Red Planet. The samples Perseverance is gathering might help researchers decide whether life ever left the mark of its in an area as Jezero Crater.

Provided by Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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