Nasa's Perseverance Mars rover begins building a store of rocks for retrieval by a later mission.
Nasa hopes Perseverance and its scout drone, Ingenuity, will stay operational for a long time to come
It will have two drones, equipped with claws, to grab the tubes and take them to the rocket system that will then blast them off Mars for the journey home.. This practice will end with the construction of the Three Forks store. "Once we've constructed the depot, we will be able to move beyond this strategy and focus on single-sample acquisition. That's freeing in a lot of ways for the science team, because we can think about more locations and more types of rocks to sample," she told reporters.The Malay rock core immediately after drilling and before encapsulation in its sample tube
The vehicle, along with its scout drone, Ingenuity, will soon climb on to the delta mound that dominates the west of the crater.
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