It's an ingenious plan.
With the remarkable deployment of NASA’s Perseverance Rover on the Red Planet — Ingenuity's much larger, six-wheeled companionBut while
to date, it can’t complete the retrieval mission on its own. That’s where NASA’s newfangled helicopters come into play.Originally, a separate rover was going to be used to ferry samples between Perseverance and the Sample Retrieval Launcher. But there’s been a change of plans, and NASA says Perseverance will do the ferrying itself, no extra rover required.The plan is to have either Perseverance or the helicopters bring Martian rock samples to a Sample Retrieval Lander.
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