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NASA IS MOVING ON FROM INGENUITY TO PERSEVERANCE.
About Time
Perseverance, NASA’s latest Mars rover, is gearing up to finally begin its long-awaited mission: gathering samples of Mars rocks and packaging them for a return journey to Earth, where they’ll be tested for signs of ancient microbial life, according to a video update tweeted from the Mars rover’s anthropomorphized Twitter account.
“I’m preparing to collect Martian samples in the search for ancient microbial life,” the tweet says. “As part of the process, I’ve been testing out the coring system on my robotic arm to make sure it works properly before I drill some of the interesting rocks around me.”
Continued below.
NASA’s New Mars Rover Is Preparing to Gather Samples That May Reveal Ancient Life
About Time
Perseverance, NASA’s latest Mars rover, is gearing up to finally begin its long-awaited mission: gathering samples of Mars rocks and packaging them for a return journey to Earth, where they’ll be tested for signs of ancient microbial life, according to a video update tweeted from the Mars rover’s anthropomorphized Twitter account.
“I’m preparing to collect Martian samples in the search for ancient microbial life,” the tweet says. “As part of the process, I’ve been testing out the coring system on my robotic arm to make sure it works properly before I drill some of the interesting rocks around me.”
Continued below.
NASA’s New Mars Rover Is Preparing to Gather Samples That May Reveal Ancient Life
