A Look Inside One of Perseverance's Core Holes Article by Nancy_A , image by NASAPersevere , edited by kevinmgill
The Swift Run core inside the coring bit. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU.
Since arriving at the delta, the rover has been observing and testing out various different rocks to see if they are good candidate for core samples in this area. The rover team said that the first few rocks that were considered either fractured too easily or had surfaces that were too rough to safely place the drill.
The best candidate was this rock, which the team named Skinner Ridge. The first abrasion tests revealed the inner surface of the rock without fracturing the surrounding area. The rover’s full instrument suite was used to investigate and document the abraded patch, then it was time to core.that collecting it went very smoothly. “At 6.70 cm long, it is our longest core of the mission so far,” Brockie wrote.
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