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Perseverance's Drill Hole for First Sample Collection Attempt
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Perseverance's Drill Hole for First Sample Collection Attempt

NASA / JPL · 2021-08-06 · photograph (digital archive)

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This image taken by NASA's Perseverance rover on August 6, 2021, shows the hole drilled in a Martian rock in preparation for the rover's first attempt to collect a sample. It was taken by one of the rover's hazard cameras in what the rover's science team has nicknamed a "paver rock" in the "Crater Floor Fractured Rough" area of Jezero Crater. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life.

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Credit linePerseverance's Drill Hole for First Sample Collection Attempt. NASA/JPL, 2021-08-06. Public domain. ID: PIA24795.
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