Can NASA finish the Perseverance rover before the 2020 launch window closes?
"With the addition of the Adaptive Caching Assembly and Bit Carousel, the heart of our sample collection system is now on board the rover," explained Matt Wallace, the mission’s deputy project manager.
To complete Perseverance’s sample collection system, engineers will soon integrate specialized sample tubes that will be used to contain the Martian surface samples. These sample tubes will be fetchable in the event that scientists ever fancy returning them to Earth for an even closer in-person analysis.
"Our final but most crucial elements to install will be the sample tubes that will contain the first samples that will be brought from another planet back to Earth for analysis," Wallace continued. "We will keep these pristine until we integrate them in a couple of months."
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