In a mission update, NASA confirmed that the upper two pebbles had been ejected by rotating the bit carousel. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech.Having made these recovery steps, cameras on the rover show that two of the pebbles have been dislodged successfully.
The team decided to tip out the sample and rotate the carousel to try to dislodge the pebbles.Īn animated GIF depicts the Martian surface below the Perseverance rover, showing the results of the January 15, 2022, percussive drill test to clear cored-rock fragments from one of the rover’s sample tubes. It turned out some pebbles had likely fallen out of the sample tube and into the carousel, gumming it up. But when it went to put the tube into the carousel inside its chassis, sensors detected unusual resistance. Everything went fine with the rover drilling into the rock and capturing a sample in a tube. The problem arose when Perseverance went to make its seventh sample collection.
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Now, NASA has shared an update on progress on dislodging the pebbles, and the signs are looking good for the rover’s continuing mission. But after several successful attempts to collect further samples, the rover ran into a problem late in December when pebbles became lodged inside the machinery for collecting samples. NASA’s Perseverance rover made history last year when it collected a sample of Mars rock for the first time.
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