Perseverance Completes Backup Mars Sample Return Cache

Perseverance

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
HOUSTON—NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has completed the caching of 10 samples of rock cores gathered from its Jezero Crater landing site at a location designated Three Forks. The depot is intended to serve as a backup sample gathering site for a joint NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Sample...

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