'It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho,'. The Perseverance Twitter account says it "may be one of the oldest rocks I sample, so it could help us understand the history of this place." It'll be a few years before any of Perseverance's samples are returned to Earth, but regardless, it's an exciting step forward for Perseverance after a pretty 'rocky' month. The formation is a mesa 1.5 kilometres (0.93 miles) across, and the facial features are merely shadows caused by its shape. Since it touched down on the red planet on August 5, 2012, Curiosity has worked diligently collecting rock samples & taking well over 300,000 images of Mars. Perseverance has cored the rock again, collected another sample, and successfully placed it inside a sample tube (seen above). Even better, this particular sample is of very high interest to NASA. The Mars rover Curiosity is not just one of the cutest robots you’ll ever see, but also an important part of NASA’s exploration of Mars. The only downside, however, is that ejecting the stuck pebbles also forced Perseverance to lose its sample.
Following almost a month of hard work, NASA ejected the pebbles by spinning Perseverance's drilling tools and shaking "the heck" out of them. NASA quickly found that small pebbles were stuck inside parts of Perseverance and preventing the transfer from happening. The rover is designed to explore the Martian surface looking for signs of past and present life on the planet to contribute to NASAs Mars Exploration. Unfortunately, the sample then refused to transfer to one of Perseverance's collection tubes. Why did Perseverance collect this latest sample from a rock it's already drilled into? On December 29, 2021, Perseverance dug into this same rock and collected a sample without a hitch.
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