NASA announced that the Mars rover Insight’s mission has officially ended, and the Perseverance (Perseverance) exploration rover, which mainly collects mineral samples on Mars, placed the first test tube on the surface of Mars on the 21st. Igneous rock samples collected from the “South Séítah” (South Séítah) on the 31st. And this sample tube, which looks like a lightsaber on the surface of Mars, is waiting for the Mars lander to pick it up and bring it back to Earth.
Perseverance’s first Mars soil sample tube looks like a lightsaber from Star Wars. NASA
NASA said on the 22nd that the Perseverance train rover placed the first titanium tube filled with rock samples on the surface of Mars at the “Three Forks” site on the 21st. This is the first step of the “Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission )” and “Three Forks” is the location of the first sample library outside the earth. Over the next two months, Perseverance will store a total of 10 samples one after another and wait for the Earth-to-Mars-orbiting spacecraft in 2027-28 to retrieve them and return them to Earth.
The sample tube is awaiting arrival on the Mars lander, where it will be picked up and sent back to Earth.
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The first sample this time is igneous rock, the size of chalk. It was picked up by the Perseverance rover at “South Séítah” in the Jezero crater on January 31 this year. It took Perseverance about an hour to retrieve the sample from inside the rover, took one last look with the camera and dropped the sample tube from a height of almost 90 centimeters onto the carefully selected surface of the floor. It has been repeatedly verified by the team’s engineers using Perseverance’s twin bodies on Earth.
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New Atlas (New Altas) reported that in the eyes of Star Wars fans, the titanium test tube containing the Martian sample looks like a “light saber” placed on the surface of Mars, which may have become a kind of myth because. The future journey of this test tube will be a great challenge comparable to science fiction: a landing craft must land on Mars, collect the test tube, relaunch itself to leave Mars and then return to Earth. The mission is still in the planning stage and it is not known how it will be completed.
Perseverance’s first Mars soil sample tube looks like a lightsaber from a Star Wars movie.
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Perseverance arrives on Mars in February 2021. The purpose of the MSR project is to transport rock and sediment samples collected by Perseverance to Earth. After Perseverance’s sampling is complete, the metal tube filled with samples is placed on the surface of Mars, then moves on to the next survey site. MSR will try to recover the samples later, put them on a spacecraft and bring them back to Earth.
NASA’s first Perseverance Mars soil sample tube is positioned on the surface of Mars, waiting to be returned to Earth. NASA
