Mars Perseverance Rover Sampling Encounters New Challenge

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Imagery has revealed the presence of pebble-sized debris at the entry to the Perseverance rover's chassis carousel.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has encountered another “small” obstacle in its campaign to collect and cache samples of rocky materials from the floor of Jezero Crater, site of an ancient lake and stream delta that could host evidence of past red planet microbial life. On Dec. 29 at a rock...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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