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'I've Got It!' NASA Confirms Perseverance Mars Rover Got Its First Piece of Rock

News18 | 07/09/2021 11:07 AM | Click to read full article

NASA confirmed Monday that its Perseverance Mars rover succeeded in collecting its first rock sample for scientists to pore over when a future mission eventually brings it back to Earth. “I’ve got it!" the space agency tweeted, alongside a photograph of a rock core slightly thicker than a pencil inside a sample tube.

Perseverance's sampling and caching system is the most complex mechanism ever sent to space, with over 3,000 parts.

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