The Perseverance rover successfully extracted samples from a Martian rock.
The NASA rover exploring Mars submitted new data on Wednesday, capturing its first successful attempt in coring a Mars rock sample.
Previous attempts at sampling Martian rocks failed to harvest as a result of the sample breaking. This time, officials are confident that the Perseverance rover captured sediment fragments based on photos from inside the collection tube.
Samples are collected with a rotary-percussive drill that runs a seven-foot robotic arm which extracts samples and collects them in a tube slightly thicker than a pencil.
The rock that Perseverance drilled into was roughly the size of a briefcase and was part of a ridgeline over half a mile long and full of boulders and rock outcrops, or rock formations visible on the surface.
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