NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has run into another snag on its mission to find evidence of ancient microbial life. .
Now, NASA's Mars 2020 mission team says it has a plan to deal with the obstruction from the rover's bit carousel: operational sequences developed and tested over the previous weekend and last week.
The contents of its latest cored-rock sample – the sixth rock core – will be returned to the surface of Mars in what Trosper called a "fairly straightforward process." .
The team sent commands up to the rover's robotic arm on Thursday and Friday.
And while this rock will never make my holiday card list, the science team really seems to like it
Further commands were to be sent Friday to order the rover to do two rotation tests of the bit carousel that will execute this weekend.
She said the team expects the imagery and data from the two tests to be sent to Earth by Jan