Watch Perseverance Mars rover spit out a stuck rock after choking on sample - Space.com

The rover will be able to reuse the sampling tube.

The team even managed to capture the moment when the Perseverance rover spat out the pebbles with its Mastcam-Z science camera.

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The sampling attempt was the sixth carried out by Perseverance since its landing on Mars in February last year.

The rover is building a collection of rock samples that will be brought to Earth in the early 2030s by a Mars sample mission that is being developed jointly by NASA and the European Space Agency. .

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The team might attempt to drill into this rock once more, the engineers said in the statement. .