NASA’s Perseverance Rover Gathers Valuable Martian Dust

Perseverance

Credit: NASA
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has added two samples of windblown broken rock and dust, also known as regolith, to its growing collection of rock core samples that if returned to Earth as planned could be of value in the development of spacesuits, solar panels and other equipment and instrumentation...
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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