Perseverance Completes Backup Mars Sample Return Cache

Mark Carreau January 30, 2023

Perseverance

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
HOUSTON—NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has completed the caching of 10 samples of rock cores gathered from its Jezero Crater landing site at a location designated Three Forks. The depot is intended to serve as a backup sample gathering site for a joint NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Sample...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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