One last task has been necessary to complete the first part of an ambitious plan.
The american space agency has spent years proving that Mars has a lot to offer to humanity and proof of this are the continuous missions that are being carried out there through robots, rovers and other vehicles. Between the NASA missions that have to do with the red planet, one stands out on the horizon and has a lot to do with the latest feat rover Perseverance.
The end point to one of the main missions of the Perseverance rover
As you can see in the last Tweet of Jet Propulsion Laboratory from NASA, it seems that the rover most famous off earth has finished collecting martian soil samples in what is known as the Mars Sample Return mission. The aim of the same is power bring to Earth samples of the sediment deposited in Marte, to be able to know even better everything that concerns the planet of the Solar System. The rover Perseverance it has taken to complete a fundamental part of the mission just 6 weeksafter the first of the tubes was deposited on the reddish ground.
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It’s official: @NASAPersevere has dropped the final tube for the #MarsSampleReturn depot! Ten samples have been deposited on the Martian surface and could be returned to Earth for in-depth analysis in the future. https://t.co/aF45TQwUlK pic.twitter.com/sVF3BftLiQ
— NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) January 30, 2023
During the month and a half that Perseverance has been depositing the different titanium tubescontaining rocks and dust from the red planet and measuring 18.6 centimeters in length, the rover has been leading the way Where do these samples rest? In this case, in addition to this alternate plan to get the samples if something happens with the rover, Perseverance has taken care of save a sample inside. And it is that the mission is still far from being completed, since the robot that should reach Mars for pool the samples It is expected that it can do so in the first years of the 2030s.
After the robot has the samples in its possession, delivered directly by Perseverance, there will still be one of the most difficult challengeswhich will be to introduce the tubes in a small capsule, insert it into a rocket and start the return trip to earth. The rover is a fundamental part of this mission, not only because it contains samples of the Martian soil, but also because it has been in charge of use your tools to drill the ground in the area of Jezero craterwhich since it was once filled with water, seems to be the best place to find clues to the possible past existence of life on Mars.
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