08 September 2021
Success! Perseverance collects its first Mars rock sample
... mission controllers confirmed the cored rock’s presence in the tube via images sent from the rover’s Mastcam-Z camera, they sent Perseverance a command to complete processing of the sample. Stored in a tube with serial number 266, the...
08 October 2021
Images confirm "once and for all" Jezero crater was an ancient Martian lake
... the relative timing of geological deposits. This is where Percy comes in. Using the rover’s left and right Mastcam-Z cameras as well as its Remote Micro-Imager, or RMI, a science team headed by Nicolas Mangold, at Laboratoire de Planétologie...
