NASA Mars Perseverance rover shoots latest selfie storage container containing samples on earth | sorae Porthol from site to space

This is the latest selfie taken by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. January 20, 2023 (Mission 682 Sol※) was created by combining 56 captured images

* 1 Sol = 1 solar day on Mars, approximately 24 hours and 40 minutes.

If you look closely on the ground in front of Persistence, you will see one white stick-shaped object. This is a tube-shaped storage container containing Mars samples taken by Perseverance, and by the day the photo was taken, nine tubes had been placed on the ground in the vicinity.

[▲ Yr hunlun diweddaraf o’r Mars Rover Perseverance. Fersiwn animeiddiedig yn edrych i lawr ar y cynhwysydd storio sampl ar y ddaear (Credyd: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)]

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are currently planning and implementing the “Mars Sample Return” program, which will return samples collected on the surface of Mars to Earth. This plan includes a three-phase mission of “sample collection on Mars”, “sample collection and launch”, “sample delivery to Earth”, and Persistence responsible for the first phase of NASA’s exploration sample collection It will land in Jezero Crater Mars in February 2021 as a rover for the Mars 2020 mission.

The samples collected by Perseverance will be collected by NASA in the second phase of the ‘Sample collection and launch’ mission and will be launched into orbit around Mars using a small rocket. In orbit, the ESA probe responsible for the mission of the third stage “transporting the sample to earth” is waiting, holding the container containing the sample released from the small rocket, stored in the recovery capsule, and return it to the earth it will be transported to

[▲ Fideo delwedd o brosiect dychwelyd sampl y blaned Mawrth]
(Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/MSFC)

The storage container containing the samples is to be transported by Perseverance itself to the second stage mission lander, but there is also a backup method of lifting the storage container placed on the surface with a small helicopter to equip with a robotic arm is increasing. The storage container shown in the selfie is also arranged as a backup, and the rock core sample collected in the 374th Sol mission is sealed in the tube. Incidentally, a core sample was also taken from the same rock on the Sol 371 mission, and will continue to be stored inside the hull until the day Perseverance delivers it to the lander.

Related: NASA Mars Rover Begins Using Surface Sample Storage Containers, Expected to Be Collected in the Mars Sample Return Program (December 24, 2022)

[▲ Gostyngodd y cynhwysydd storio sampl cyntaf o Perseverance ar Ragfyr 21, 2022 (Credyd: NASA / JPL-Caltech)]

Persistence has a total of 43 tube-shaped containers for storing the collected samples, and so far 18 storage containers have been filled and sealed (one containing air samples including books). According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a total of 10 storage containers will be placed on the surface of the earth around the area where the selfies were taken.

According to the plan in December 2022, ESA’s spacecraft for returning to Earth will be launched in 2027, and NASA’s lander with a small sample launch rocket will be launched in 2028. Surface samples are expected to Mars collected by Perseverance will be delivered to Earth in 2033, 10 years from now at the earliest. The top image was released by JPL on January 24, 2023.

[▲ Fideo yn esbonio sut i gymryd hunlun gyda Dyfalbarhad (Saesneg)]
（Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS）

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• Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
• NASA/JPL – Selfie Sample Depot Three Forks of Persistence

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