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Hit and miss: Perseverance rover failed its first collection of rock samples on Mars

 09 Aug 2021 11:09:41 IST

NASA Perseverance drilled into the surface of Mars but failed in its initial attempt to collect rock samples that would be recovered by future missions for analysis by scientists on Earth.

The US space agency on Friday released images of a small mound with a hole in its center next to the rover - the first ever dug into the Red Planet by a robot.

This image taken by one of the danger cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on August 6, 2021, shows the hole drilled in what the rover's science team calls a "pavilion" in preparation for the first attempt at the rover. mission to take a sample from Mars.  Image credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech

This image taken by one of the danger cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on August 6, 2021, shows the hole drilled in what the rover's science team calls a "pavilion" in preparation for the first attempt at the rover. mission to take a sample from Mars. Image credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech

But data sent to Earth by the rover after its first attempt to collect a sample and seal it in a tube indicated that no rocks had been collected.

“While this is not the 'hole in one' we were hoping for, there is always risk to innovate,” Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's science missions branch, said in a statement.

“I am confident that we have the right team to work on this, and we will push for a solution to ensure future success. "

The borehole is the first step in a sampling process that is expected to take around 11 days, with the goal of looking for signs of ancient microbial life that may have been preserved in ancient deposits on the lake bed.

Scientists also hope to better understand Martian geology.

The mission took off from Florida just over a year ago and Perseverance, which is the size of a large family car, landed on February 18 in Jezero Crater.

Scientists believe the crater contained a deep lake 3.5 billion years ago, where conditions could have favored alien life.

NASA is planning a mission to bring back to Earth around 30 samples in the 2030s, which will be analyzed by much more sophisticated instruments than those that can be brought back to Mars today.

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