Perseverance Rover drilled First Hole on Mars to collect First Sample

Finally, "Percy" is getting into the meat of its purpose and the first bore hole drilling of the lake bed of Jezero Crater was done, but as I found out, there was no sample collected due to some as yet unknown issue that is now being examined by NASA engineers... There is however a very good artists depiction of the sample tube and its identified parts, which should provide you with a new element of this mission, which will play a tremendous part of the analysis of the samples we finally do collect and bring back to Earth on a subsequent mission...

Here is the descriptive text from NASA and iGadgetPro:

"On August 6, 2021 NASA’s Perseverance Rover transmitted new images from Mars drilling First Hole on Red Planet and collecting First Sample. Today Martian surface sample acquisition began when JPL sent the signal to grab that first jewel to be stored in the Perseverance treasure chest. While there is much science that can be done on Mars by rovers like Perseverance, there are certain investigations (e.g., geochronology through isotope-dating) that can only be done with large-scale equipment in labs here on Earth." iGadgetPro/NASA

Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

I hope you enjoyed this! I will follow it up and report as soon as I have more information.
Kerry
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