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'Green Gardens' Sample in Tube
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This image shows a cylinder of rock the size of a piece of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The sample, dubbed "Green Gardens," was taken from a rock called "Tablelands" on the rim of Mars' Jezero Crater. The image was captured by the Mastcam-Z instrument on Feb. 16, 2025, the 1,420th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Each core the rover takes is about 0.5 inches (13 millimeters) in diameter and 2.4 inches (60 millimeters) long.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit line'Green Gardens' Sample in Tube. NASA/JPL, 2025-04-10. Public domain. ID: PIA26529.
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