Mission accomplished!
The samples on the surface right are designed to be picked up by two small helicopters that will launch from a future rover. This rover would land in the Jezero crater, the ancient dried-up lake bed that Perseverance has been calling its home since February 2021.The primary method of transferring samples, however, involves Perseverance itself, which has deposited ten identical tubes inside of its Sample Caching system to eventually hand them over to the ESA's Sample Return rover.
It's an exciting prospect: the igneous and sedimentary rock samples "provide an excellent cross-section of the geologic processes that took place in Jezero shortly after the crater’s formation almost four billion years ago," according to aIf everything goes according to plan, by the next decade we could be examining the first Martian samples to have ever been returned to Earth, a tantalizing glimpse into the history of the Red Planet — and an unprecedented opportunity to probe the...
But a lot has to go right in the next ten years for that to happen, so it's not exactly surprising that NASA has a backup plan.
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