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Mars Sample Depot Completed by Perseverance Rover

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Tom Patton
Feb 07, 2023
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The Mars sample depot has been completed by NASA's Perseverance rover. Ten sample tubes, capturing an amazing variety of Martian geology, have been deposited on Mars’ surface so they could be studied on Earth in the future.

“With the Three Forks depot in our rearview mirror, Perseverance is now headed up the delta. Once we pass the geologic unit the scie…

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