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Perseverance's First 2 Regolith Samples
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snagged two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – on Dec. 2 and 6, 2022. This set of images, taken by the rover's left navigation camera, shows Perseverance's robotic arm over the two holes left after the samples were collected. The samples were taken in Mars' Jezero Crater from a pile of wind-blown sand and dust called a "mega-ripple" – a feature similar to but smaller than a dune.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit linePerseverance's First 2 Regolith Samples. NASA/JPL, 2022-12-07. Public domain. ID: PIA25589.
