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NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover snags 1st dirt samples

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NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover snags 1st dirt samples

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NASA’s most advanced robotic geologist to date has collected its first samples of broken rocks and dust from the Red Planet’s surface. 

The Perseverance rover drilled free two of what scientists call regolith samples as it continues its mission to investigate geological processes and to search for tell-tale evidence that life once existed on Mars. The NASA-operated rover grabbed the regolith samples on Dec. 2 and Tuesday (Dec. 6), adding them to its collection of 15 rock cores liberated from the planet’s Jezero Crater (plus one atmospheric sample) since the spacecraft landed in February 2021



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