NASA's Perseverancerover shows off collection of Mars samples NASAJPL
NASA’s Perseverance rover captured this portrait of its recently completed sample depot using its Mastcam-Z camera on Jan. 31, 2023, the 693rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Containing 10 samples, the depot is a crucial milestone in the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return campaign. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
An annotated version of the portrait captured by NASA’s Perseverance shows the location of the 10 sample tubes in the depot. The “Amalik” sample closest to the rover was about 10 feet away; the “Mageik” and “Malay” samples farthest away were approximately 197 feet from the rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
The primary tubes reside in the belly of Perseverance, which would pass them, along with future samples taken during the mission, to a Sample Retrieval Lander as part of the campaign. If anything were to happen to the rover to prevent it from delivering tubes directly to the lander, samples could be retrieved from the depot instead.
Perseverance built the depot at"Three Forks," a location within Jezero Crater. Billions of years ago, a river flowed into the crater, carrying sediment that formed a steep, fan-shaped delta that the rover will drive up in the months ahead.
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