“We have a sample. I’ve never been happier to see a hole in a rock, “Steltzner wrote.
NASA has set up his own account on the social network, writing contributions on it in the first person, as if they were written by a robotic vehicle from Mars. “The first pictures show a sample from the sample. The photos I took are inconclusive due to the bad light. When the lighting conditions are better, I will take more photos to confirm that we have an intact sample in the tube, “NASA wrote on Twitter. She also published two photographs of the sample tube with the text:
The first sampling at the beginning of August failed due to the great fineness of the material.
The Perseverance mission includes searching for signs of possible past, not present, life on Mars, collecting data on the planet’s climate and geology, as well as collecting samples of rocks and dust that should be transported to Earth sometime in the future.
NASA wants to use a robotic rover to obtain about thirty-five such samples. Therefore, subscriptions will continue in other places.
Mars laboratory in action
Perseverance landed on Mars on February 18 with the Ingenuity in the bowels. The small helicopter has its own program. It is not equipped with scientific instruments and its only task is to test the possibility of using similar flying devices in the future when examining the surface of extraterrestrial bodies.
The machine exceeded the expectations of experts and has already completed eleven successful flights, during which, among other things, it took a number of shots of the terrain from the air. The images are also used by scientists when planning the Perseverance route.
– .
