Perseverance is picking up the sampling pace.
Perseverance has now sealed up 15 of those 43 tubes. Twelve contain rock cores, one holds Martian air, and the other two are witness tubes.
These tubes will be brought to Earth by a joint NASA-European Space Agency campaign, perhaps as early as 2033. The architecture of that campaign changed recently; NASA and ESA decided to and rely instead on Perseverance and, if needed, two Ingenuity-like helicopters to deliver the sample tubes to the NASA rocket that will launch them off the Martian surface. " , a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter
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