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Perseverance Mars rover stashes 10th sample, completing Red Planet depot

Summary by Ground News

Nasa's Perseverance rover has finished building a rock depot on Mars. It's laid down a series of tubes on the ground containing a variety of rock and environmental specimens. The depot will serve as a reserve cache to be brought back to Earth in the event the rover is unable to complete the next stage of its mission.

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Perseverance Mars rover stashes 10th sample, completing Red Planet depot

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover just dropped its 10th sample tube, completing a backup depot of material for future return to Earth.

3 years ago·United States

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BBC News

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Nasa's Mars rover Perseverance completes rock depot

The robot lays down a variety of rock and environmental specimens for potential return to Earth.

3 years ago·United Kingdom

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Mars Daily

Perseverance completes Mars Sample Depot

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2023 Less than six weeks after it began, construction of the first sample depot on another world is complete. Confirmation that NASA's Perseverance Mars rover successfully dropped the 10th and final tube planned for the depot was received around 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST) Sunday, Jan. 29, by mission controllers at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. This major milestone

3 years ago·Australia

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NASA (Source)

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes Mars Sample Depot

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.

3 years ago·Washington, United States

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