NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has pointed the way to a special website where you can learn more about all of the rock and soil samples it's collected to date.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is on a roll, having now collected and cached 12 samples of rock and soil during its ongoing explorations of the red planet’s Jezero Crater.
Call them the “dusty dozen.” I’ve now got 12 rock core samples on board, collected while #SamplingMars at these different sites around Jezero Crater. Learn more about all my samples, and keep track of the ones still to come: https://t.co/SuSfqejyOZ pic.twitter.com/5VoaJjj3Xh In the tweet, Perseverance also highlighted a special page on NASA’s website that lets you learn more about all of the samples that it’s gathered to date.
Later in the mission, NASA’s Perseverance rover will leave the samples aside for another mission to collect. The material will then be transported to Earth before the end of this decade and analyzed in laboratories to see if it holds any evidence of past microbial life.
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