SPACE reports that NASA’s Perseverance rover “drilled into another Martian rock and socked away the resulting core, mission team members announced via Twitter” Tuesday. The sample is the seventh collected by Perseverance on Mars thus far. Perseverance is to collect another rock sample from the Jezero Crater before heading on to the Jezero river delta.
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Perseverance Explores Jezero River Delta on Mars
CNET News reports that NASA’s Perseverance rover has arrived at the Jezero Crater river delta on Mars. NASA Science Mission Directorate Associate Administrator Thomas Zurbuchen said Tuesday, “The delta at Jezero Crater promises to be a veritable geologic feast and one of the best locations on Mars to look for signs of past microscopic life.”
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