The surprising reason a Mars rover just started dropping samples

Dec 28 2022 by Mashable

 

Look carefully at this new image taken just days ago on Mars, and you might mistake that object sitting on the dusty barren surface as… wait, is that a lightsaber?

Sorry, Star Wars fans. What you see is a sealed NASA tube containing samples collected by the Perseverance rover, a car-size lab on six wheels that has been rumbling over the Martian terrain for nearly two years. The U.S. space agency said the vehicle "deposited" the tube — or what we normal folks would describe as "just left...

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