29, after extracting a core from a rock the mission team nicknamed "Issole." According to a NASA blog, the problem occurred in the device that transfers the drill bit and sample out of the rover's drill arm and into a carousel inside the rover's chassis for storage.
Related: Perseverance rover collects 2nd Mars sample (photos).—Voyager to Mars rover: NASA's 10 greatest innovations.The Perseverance rover landed on Mars on Feb.The rover has equipment that can do some analysis on board, but the hope is that a future Mars mission will be able to retrieve and return the rover's rock samples to Earth. .
The rover's very first attempt to collect a rock sample failed
But the rover soon succeeded in collecting a pair of rock samples in quick succession.