NASA is blaming unusually soft rock for last week's sampling failure on Mars. The Perseverance rover came up empty after trying to collect its first core sample on the red planet.
This pair of August 2021 images made available by NASA shows the drill hole from Perseverance’s first sample-collection attempt on Mars. NASA is blaming unusually soft rock for last week’s sampling fiasco on Mars. The Perseverance rover came up empty after attempting to collect its first core sample on the red planet for eventual return to Earth. Data beamed back on Friday, Aug.
Imaging by the rover and its companion helicopter, Ingenuity, show the sedimentary rock should be much better for sampling there, Louise Jandura, chief engineer for Perseverance’s sampling campaign, said Wednesday.“The hardware performed as commanded but the rock did not cooperate this time,” Jandura wrote in an online update.
NASA is looking to collect about 35 samples that would be returned via future spacecraft in a decade.
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