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Perseverance Finds its Dream Rock

https://www.universetoday.com/166489/perseverance-finds-its-dream-rock/

The Perseverance Rover has found the kind of rock that it was sent there to find. It's exactly the type that holds microscopic fossils.

If there’s a Holy Grail on Mars, it’s probably a specific type of rock: A rock so important that it holds convincing clues to Mars’ ancient habitability.

Perseverance might have just found it.

4 comments

AFKBRBChocolate

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Terrible website, interesting article

rhythmisaprancer

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Bunsen Peak

It does look like a yellow stone in the pictures...

Anyway, I had not previously realized that there is intent on Perseverance returning to earth.

brianorca

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Perseverance itself isn't returning, but it does collect sample canisters that could be. The canisters would need to be transferred to some future mission currently named "Mars Sample Return"

rhythmisaprancer

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So, essentially, their plan is to land something in more or less the same place? Or have another aerial flyer? I need to read more, this is exciting.