NASA's Perseverance rover has completed caching its samples at Three Forks. Next it'll leave the Jezero Crater behing and ascend the delta.
Perseverance took a selfie to mark the completion of its sample depot. The final sample tube is visible on the ground between the rover’s tracks. Perseverance captured this image with its Mastcam-Z camera on Jan. 31, 2023, the 693rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSSsample-retrieving helicopter
Two different images of the sample depot. NASA’s Perseverance Mars dropped each of its 10 samples at a location dubbed “Three Forks” in Jezero Crater. On the left is an orbital image of the depot. The center of each circle is the location where that sample was deployed, and the red text within that circle indicates the name of the sample as designated by Perseverance’s science team. On the right is an image from Perseverance, showing each sample in a labelled yellow circle.
This image shows where Perseverance’s Three Forks sample cache is located at the base of the ancient river delta. Click on the image to visit an interactive map of Perseveranc’s journey through Jezero Crater. Image Credit: ESA“With the Three Forks depot in our rearview mirror, Perseverance is now headed up the delta,” said Rick Welch, Perseverance’s deputy project manager at JPL. “We’ll make our ascent via the ‘Hawksbill Gap’ route we previously explored.
With the completion of the sample cache and the ascension to the top of the delta, Perseverance is leaving its Delta Front Campaign behind and beginning its Delta Top Campaign. The types of rock will change as Perseverance leaves the Jezero Crater behind.
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