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NASA's Perseverance rover is clogged up with pebbles - Livescience.com

NASA's Perseverance rover is clogged up with pebbles - Livescience.com

NASA's Perseverance rover is clogged up with pebbles - Livescience.com
Jan 13, 2022 48 secs

A small pile of pebbles is clogging up the Perseverance Mars rover's operations. .

The rover, which is collecting rock samples for eventual return to Earth, began to struggle on Dec.

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. 

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