NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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Mars Guy - Episode 204 - Discussed attempts to seal the recent sample (www.youtube.com)

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[–] paulhammond5155 3 points 2 days ago

Mars will always be tricky, even when your think they have all the bases covered, a new type of curve ball arrives, along with some extra bases. Looking back at the CacheCam images it appears as though they have had 2 or maybe even 3 attempts to seal tube 060, but one may just have been the process of cleaning the neck of the tube at the measuring station. If they don't provide a separate mission update addressing this, then it's a 6 month wait to read the mission managers reports in the PDS. Certainly one for the history books :)