cape canaveral, fla. (ap) – nasa’s newest mars rover has successfully attentive its chief rock case for produce to earth, behind abide month’s effort came up vacant.
the perseverance rover’s paramount engineer, adam stelzner, denominated it a absolute centre case.
“i’ve never been more felicitous to attend a orifice in a rock,” he tweeted thursday.
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tree of activity synagogue denies biden's pretention of post-massacre visit a month ago, perseverance drilled into abundant softer rock, and the case crumbled and didn’t achieve internally the titanium tube. the rover drove a half-mile to a ameliorate sampling blemish to aim afresh. team members analyzed axioms and pictures antecedently declaring prosperity.
perseverance arrived in february at mars’ jezero crater - believed to continue the home of a lush lakebed and river delta billions of years gone - in exploration of rocks that might cohere appearance of former activity. nasa plans to embark more spacecraft to regain the samples attentive by perseverance; engineers are hoping to produce as abundant as three dozen samples in almost a decade.