Have they beat Southwest yet?...............
Astonishing. What was the design lifetime? 5 or 10 flights?
In related news:
Ten sample tubes, capturing an amazing variety of Martian geology, have been deposited on Mars’ surface so they could be studied on Earth in the future.Less than six weeks after it began, construction of the first sample depot on another world is complete.
Confirmation that NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover successfully dropped the 10th and final tube planned for the depot was received around 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST) Sunday, Jan. 29, by mission controllers at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
This major milestone involved precision planning and navigation to ensure the tubes could be safely recovered in the future by the NASA-ESA (European Space Agency) Mars Sample Return campaign, which aims to bring Mars samples to Earth for closer study.
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What the heck? Where did those 5 perfectly aligned holes come from - just to the left of the rock?
I don’t see any tracks or disturbance of the ground to indicate the rover did that.
Apparently OZ has the distinction of having fossils of the oldest living beings on earth: Stromatolites .....
Apparently this has something to do with Mars as they try to explain the Martians now living in Queensland ?
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/24695/researching-outback-stromatolites/