On Earth, such minerals can preserve fossilized signs of ancient microscopic life. Sep 8, 2021, 12:06 PM PDT A rock core inside the Perseverance rover's sample tube on September 1. NASA’s Perseverance rover today completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than a pencil. It will then travel to Jezero Crater's delta region, which might be rich in clay minerals. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this doughnut-shaped rock in Jezero Crater from about 328 feet (100 meters) away using its Remote Microscopic Imager (RMI), part of the SuperCam instrument, on June 22, 2023, the 832nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The first part of the rover's science mission, which will last hundreds of sols or Martian days, will be complete when it returns to its landing site.īy then, it will have traveled somewhere between 1.6 and 3.1 miles (2.5 and five kilometers) and may have filled up to eight of its 43 sample tubes. NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes Mars Sample Depot Jan. It is also trying to better characterize the Red Planet's geology and past climate. Perseverance landed on an ancient lake bed called the Jezero Crater in February, on a mission to search for signs of ancient microbial life using a suite of sophisticated instruments mounted on its turret. This procedure is called "percuss to ingest" and is meant to clear the lip of the tube of residual material, and cause the sample to slide down the tube. After coring the rock, the rover vibrated the drill bit and tube for one second, five separate times.
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