Captured by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, a new panoramic image shows in great detail humanity’s first sampledepot on another planet.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has been busy creating what the space agency recently said was “humanity’s first sample depot on another planet.”
NASA is planning to bring samples of martian material to Earth for detailed analysis in the Mars Sample Return mission that’s expected to take place in the 2030s. NASA points out that the depot is actually a backup system that will only be used if another set of samples held by Perseverance fails to be successfully transferred to the collection vehicle — the Sample Retrieval Lander — during the MSR mission.
It’s therefore hoped that scientific analysis of the samples collected by Perseverance could unlock many of the secrets that Mars still holds, including a definitive answer on whether any form of life existed there.
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