Sample Depot being Built by Perseverance Rover on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover is building the first sample depot on another world. This marks a crucial milestone in the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return campaign, which aims to bring Mars samples to Earth for closer study.
“Seeing our first sample on the ground is a great capstone to our prime mission period, which ends on Jan. 6.”
Rick Welch, Perseverance’s depu…
