The team has made good progress implementing the initial recovery steps outlined in last week’s blog. Our first success: The upper two pebbles were ejected from the bit carousel during a test. This is ...

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The Perseverance rover attempted to collect its first sample of Mars last week, but it seems the red planet wasn't ready to cooperate. The Perseverance rover attempted to collect its first sample of ...