NASA’s Perseverance Rover Has Been Very Busy

The Perseverance Rover has been in the Jeziro Crater for more than a Martian year, or 687 Earth days. In that time and especially recently, a lot has happened in preparation for different experiments and missions. This includes a journey out of the base of the crater and up Jezero’s western fan as it begins exploring the upper surface.

As of right now, it has sealed 22 of the 43 sample tubes it brought to Mars and created the Three Forks Sample Depot where it deposited 10 of these samples. Earlier this year Perseverance completed one of its biggest milestones with the construction of the first sample depot on another world. This event involved precision planning and navigation to ensure the tubes could be safely recovered in the future by the Mars Sample Return campaign.

After exploring boulder field last week, Perseverance is continuing the Upper Fan campaign with important mission objectives coming up as well. Here I will go more in-depth into what the rover has been up to, the current Mars Sample Return progress, its busy route, and more.

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:54 - The Rover's Route
3:15 - Sample Return Progress

[madchad]

The Space Bucket team continues to bring new and concise information not found on any other YT channel. This is the first time I've seen a update on the Rover. Very cool! 🤓👍

[marvinegreen]

When I started reading science fiction in the late sixties, it was still thought possible that the canals on Mars were evidence of an advanced civilization attempting to bring water down from the poles to the equatorial regions. 70 and still kicking... Maybe I'll be around for the sample returns so as to learn that those damn Martians were only 2 microns tall...

[collinjensen]

I appreciate the news, information, and especially the effort you put into these videos. But I do find it hard to follow along sometimes. idk maybe that’s just my adhd

[nzredwolf]

I can't imagine how incredibly nervous scientists are gonna be when analysing these samples. Just a few wrong moves could contaminate and render useless samples worth billions of dollars

[kodiakbear]

Rover touched down. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)

[Yaivenov]

I think you meant leapfrogging each other instead of sling shotting.

[MyKharli]

How is the search for past life going ? There used to be lots of posts but now its all about the engineering feats .