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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
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Sampling here wouldn't surprise me, given the mission's pace of late, although there's a lot more outcrop to study just downhill, which makes me wonder if they're going to be careful and selective. If the long-term plan really is to drive Percy back to the crater floor some time from now, they don't need to be quite so cautious about preserving tubes as they have been, you'd think...
Sol 1362 - They just drove away, >80 meters north (guess). So no sample here (yet) :)
I guess it would make more sense to do a little walkabout before thinking about taking another core. It's not like there is a rush with MSR on the way to Mars to collect the samples...