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Perseverance ‘SuperCam’ begins hunt for past life on Mars – The Jakarta Post – Jakarta Post
The return to Earth years from now of the rocks and soil it retrieves “will give scientists the Holy Grail of planetary exploration,” Jean-Yves le Gall, president…
The bundle of instruments known as SuperCam on board the Perseverance Mars rover has collected its first samples in the hunt for past life on the Red Planet, mission scientists said Wednesday.
The return to Earth years from now of the rocks and soil it retrieves “will give scientists the Holy Grail of planetary exploration,” Jean-Yves le Gall, president of France’s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), which mostly built the mobile observatory, commented via a YouTube broadcast.
These “pieces…
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