(ORDO NEWS) — NASA‘s Perseverance rover has unveiled a panorama of its recently completed sample repository, a milestone in its mission.
The panorama was made up of 368 images that were sent to Earth. The rover captured the placement of 10 titanium tubes.
Eight of these tubes are filled with rock and regolith, the ninth contains an atmospheric sample, and the tenth is a “witness” tube.
Perseverance photographed his warehouse with Mastcam-Z on January 31, 2023. The color has been adjusted to show the surface of Mars as it would be seen by the human eye.
The repository is a reserve collection of samples that may be retrieved in the future as part of the Mars Sample Retrieval Campaign, a joint project between NASA and ESA.
The rover began building the storage facility on December 21, 2022, accurately distributing the tubes in case they need to be retrieved in the future.
Primary tubes are in Perseverance. He will transfer them along with future samples to the lander.
If anything happens to the rover that prevents it from delivering the vials directly to the lander, the samples can be taken from the warehouse.
Perseverance built a vault at the Three Forks, a site within the Lake crater.
Billions of years ago, a river flowed into the crater, carrying sediment that formed a steep, fan-shaped delta that the rover would climb in the coming months.
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