NASAannounced on September 1 that data from the rover show that the first rock sample from Mars has been successfully taken.
The samples are expected to help scientists investigate whether there was life on the red planet billions of years ago after the vehicle returns to Earth.
The Perseverance rover, built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and powered by plutonium fuel, landed on Mars on February 18, about 7 months after launching on July 30, 2020.
For the realization of Perseverance’s new mission on the Red Planet, which has the most advanced technological features among the vehicles sent to Mars, 2.4 billion dollars was spent on infrastructure works, and 300 million dollars was spent on the system that makes it possible to land and operate the vehicle.
Last month, Perseverance’s first attempt to take samples from Mars failed, so NASA developed a new protocol.
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