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First sample depot on Mars

First sample depot on Mars
First sample depot on Mars NASA's Perseverance rover captured this image of its first deposit of a titanium tube containing a chalk-size core of igneous rock onto the Martian surface. The sample tube will be one of several considered for a journey to Earth as part of the joint ESA-NASA Mars Sample Return campaign. NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS