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Sample Depot being Built by Perseverance Rover on Mars

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Tom Patton
Jan 03, 2023
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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…

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