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Perseverance rover’s belly hits the floor on Mars, exposing its rock-sampling heart (videos) – Space.com
The mission team can now check out the sampling system.
The Perseverance rover’s
sampling system is one step closer to snagging precious Mars rocks for later analysis.
Perseverance, which landed inside Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18
, successfully dropped the “belly pan” covering its sampling system last week.
“Checking things out before I release the ‘ejectable belly pan,'” mission team members said on Friday (March 12) via Perseverance’s official Twitter account
. After the team got confirmation that Percy dropped the belly pan as planned, they posted…
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