Perseverance rover left scientists with a new " On December 23, he dropped a second tube with samples of Martian soil, Space reports.. com.
And although this is not the first sample dropped, it is the largest. He, as well as other samples, should be delivered to Earth in 2033..
\! This pipe contains a piece of sediment from the edge of an ancient river delta here - the longest core of rock I have ever taken,"
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The longest rock core collected by Perseverance is a sample called Mageik, which the rover drilled from the Amalek rock this fall in the Enchanted Lake region of the ancient delta at the site of the Jezero crater landing site..
The tube itself is the size of a marker, and the length of the sample inside it is 7.6 centimeters..
In total, Perseverance will drop 10 tubes of samples, which will then have to be collected by the vehicles involved in the sample return mission.. This mission is expected to launch in 2028 with samples back to Earth five years later..
If everything goes according to plan, Perseverance itself or two small helicopters will deliver them to the rock collection platform, which will also be launched to the Red Planet..
It is worth noting that the samples that the rover drops are spare.. Perseverance collects two samples per region, keeping one in its vault and discarding the other in case it is needed.
Recall that earlier Perseverance was able to record the sound of dust particles that circled around him during a storm.. This audio recording could be the key to understanding how dust travels across the Red Planet.