NASA’s Perseverance rover now has seven Mars rock samples in its collection. The robot the size of a car drilled into another Martian rock, pushing away the resulting core. This makes it the seventh drilled monster Perseverance has collected since it landed at the bottom of the Red Planet’s Jezero crater in February 2021. The tweet on the official Twitter handle read: My collection of rocks is growing… I have my seventh core monster on board, drilled out of the rock you see here. I plan to take another sample here before continuing to the old river delta.”
My rock collection is growing…
I have my seventh core sample on board, drilled out of the rock you see here. I plan to take another sample here before continuing to the old river delta. #SamplingMars
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— NASA’s persistence Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) March 8, 2022
The delta that the rover will move to next is in the Eberswalde Crater, in the southern highlands of Mars. The 65 km diameter crater is visible as a semicircle on the right of the image and was formed more than 3.7 billion years ago when an asteroid hit the planet. Here’s the official one release for the same by NASA
The Perseverance Mars Mission
The main task of Mars mission persistence is to search for ancient microbial life on Mars. For this purpose, it will land in the Jezero crater on Mars, with a diameter of 49 kilometers. It was thought that Zero Creator had a fan-forming river delta rich in clay. So it’s very possible that we could get the signs of ancient microbial life here.
The perseverance will examine the collected sample itself, also it will probably send the collected sample back to Earth in 2035.