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Perseverance chief engineer, JPL, Adam Steltzner, shows a sample tube that will hold sample core’s collected from...
The robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its percussive drill to eject fragments of cored rock from a...
Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, shows a sample tube that will hold...
Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, shows a sample tube that will hold...
This Mastcam-Z image shows Perseverance's drill with no cored-rock sample evident in the sample tube. The image was...
Perseverance's Sampling and Caching System Camera, or CacheCam, captured this time-lapse series of images of the...
The first cored sample of Mars rock acquired by NASA's Perseverance rover is sealed inside its titanium container...
This image shows a concept model of NASA's orbiting sample container, which will hold tubes of Martian rock and soil...
NASA's Perseverance rover deposited the first of several sample tubes onto the Martian surface on Dec. 21, 2022, the...
Engineers react with surprise while testing how NASA's Perseverance rover will deposit its sample tubes on the...
During the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, pristine samples of Mars rock and regolith (broken rock and...
This photomontage shows each of the sample tubes shortly after they were deposited onto the surface by NASA's...
Shown here is a representation of the 21 sample tubes (containing rock, regolith, atmosphere, and witness materials)...
After the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission has collected pristine samples of Mars rock and regolith (broken...
This illustration shows NASA's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), which will carry tubes containing Martian rock and soil...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with several of the 10 sample tubes it deposited at a sample depot it...
This image shows a cylinder of rock the size of a piece of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA's Perseverance...
Angie Jackman, manager of the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) project, holds a 3D-printed model of the tubes NASA's...
This image taken by the front left hazard camera (hazcam) aboard NASA's Mars Perseverance rover shows the cored-rock...
This map shows where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will be dropping 10 samples that a future mission could pick up....
Shown here is an annotated representation of the 13 sample tubes containing rock-core samples that are being carried...
This image from NASA Curiosity rover just after discarding a soil sample as part of its first decontamination...
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins uses a hammer to get a drive tube into the ground to collect a pristine soil sample...
This image taken by the Mastcam-Z camera aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on Sept. 4, 2021, confirmed that the rover...