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Mars rover: Nasa confirms Perseverance has its first rock
ManuDate: Friday, 17-September-2021, 5:27 AM | Message # 1
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The US space agency has confirmed that its Perseverance rover has retrieved its first rock sample on Mars.

There were an anxious few days after the robot drilled into a thick slab dubbed "Rochette" that the core might have been dropped.

But new images of the drill head show the sample safely inside the mechanism.

It's a historic moment. The core represents the first ever rock section collected on another planet intended for return to Earth.

The rover is tasked with gathering more than two dozen such samples over the next year or so that will be fetched home by a joint US and European effort later this decade.

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