NASA's Perseverance rover has collected several 'tantalizing' rock samples from an ancient river delta on Mars, setting the stage for an elaborate future mission that aims to retrieve the specimens and bring them back to Earth.
NASA’s Perseverance rover puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called “Skinner Ridge” in Mars’ Jezero Crater. Composed of multiple images, this mosaic shows layered sedimentary rocks in the face of a cliff in the delta, as well as one of the locations where the rover abraded a circular patch to analyze a rock’s composition.
Scientists won't be able to study the specimens up close until they are brought to Earth, likely sometime in the 2030s, but NASA said some of the rocks contain the highest concentrations of organic material yet detected by the"I personally find these results so moving because it feels like we're in the right place with the right tools at a very pivotal moment," Sunanda Sharma, a mission scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said Thursday in a news briefing.
"These rocks are exactly the kind of rocks we came to investigate, both with the rover and its scientific instruments and also to bring back to Earth so that they can be studied in terrestrial laboratories," he said.touched down on Mars in February 2021 "This amazing rover has collected a really tantalizing suite of rocks with extraordinary science potential," Laurie Leshin, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in the briefing.
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