Written by dense buckner, postdoctoral fellow at nasa's Goddard space flight center
Perseverance is hard at work on mars, overcoming obstacles for scientific explosion! Just a more sols after successful sealing the challenging green gardens core, perseverance roved on to the brom point workspace to collect another called Main River. Browom point is installed a few Hindred Meters down-Slope from where Green Gardens was collected, and the Science Team Chose to Explore this Area Because Orbiter Image Dark layers.
Upon Reaching the Workspace, Images Captured by Perseverance Confirm that these distinct layers are visible on the ground, as well. Layers are interesting because they record different geological events that occurred in the planet's past, which may include deposits of sediments, lava flows, or volcanic ash. By Conducting Proximity Science with Rover Instrument and Collecting a Core to return to Earth for Future Analyses, the team is investigating what this material is composed of and how it was employed.
When the team is planning to collect a sample from an outcrop, the first step is to Abrade the Rock, Grinding Away The Top Few Millimaters and Smoothing Out the SORACE SO The Sherloc and Pixl Instralations can occur in and Conduct their scans. Although Perseverance has Abraded more than 30 Rocks Across Jezero CRAZERO CRATER, New Rocks Still Present Unique Challenges. While abrading the slains river target at brom point, the Rock Unexpectedly Fracted, Resulting in an Uneven Surface. Sherloc and Pixl Require just a more millimeters of Clearance to Safely Approach The Rock, And While Pixl was able to make the broken surface, the topography looking a little more businessy for serlocate.
The team's engineers and the rover plans should stock of the situation and decide to use Watson, Sherloc's Companion Camera, to Snap some images of the abrasion patch from another. These images billt a surface model of the small crackers and crevices, and with this knowledge in hand, the team found a way to safly maaneuver the instrument to the same spot that pixl scanned, and collective Spectroscopy map. Once this Abraction Proximity Science was completed, The Rover Went on to Drill and Seal the Main River Core, an activity that went off with a hitch.
With another core in the bag, perseverance is off to the next workspace, ready to tackle wheatever challenges may lie ahead!
