'As director of NASA JPL, I'm pretty sure the Force is with me, right?'
— has been known to cosplay as"Star Wars" characters alongside a custom R2-D2 robot for charity and fun, so the Force between JPL, Mars and"Star Wars" is indeed strong. That said, the Perseverance tube design is informed more by engineering than science fiction.
Certainly we can point to similarities. The Perseverance sample tube is made of titanium, a metal, which sounds akin to how Luke Skywalker described a lightsaber's design in Star Wars #4, a canon comic book. Wookieepedia, a"Star Wars" fan site, saysmore generally include fictional exotic alloys, gems or substances like Haysian smelt, pastillion ore, or black onk.
Unlike the lightsaber's use as a weapon, however, the design of the Perseverance sample tube was driven by the complications of storing the tube on the surface of Mars for a few years before shipping it in a spacecraft relay back to Earth.
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