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Perseverance's Drill After Cleaning Operation
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This Mastcam-Z image shows Perseverance's drill with no cored-rock sample evident in the sample tube. The image was taken on Sept. 1, 2021 (the 190th sol, or Martian day, of the mission), after coring – and after a cleaning operation was performed to clear the sample tube's lip of any residual material. The bronze-colored ring is the coring bit. The half-moon inside the bit is the open end of the sample tube.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit linePerseverance's Drill After Cleaning Operation. NASA/JPL, 2021-09-02. Public domain. ID: PIA24803.
