Marvels of engineering, the rover’s sample tubes must be tough enough to safely bring Red Planet samples on the long journey back to Earth in immaculate condition. The tubes carried in the belly of ...
When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars in February next year, it will begin its search for evidence of ancient life on the planet. To do this, the rover will be collecting samples of the Martian ...
The team has made good progress implementing the initial recovery steps outlined in last week’s blog. Our first success: The upper two pebbles were ejected from the bit carousel during a test. This is ...
The new, innovative 2-mL tubes with external thread are the first tubes of their kind, enabling researchers to store high-volume samples in a space-efficient 96-well format. The tube provides an ...
Perseverance's Sample Tube Looks Clean: This image, taken by the Mastcam-Z camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on Jan. 20, 2022, shows the rover successfully expelled the remaining large ...