Nasa Is Sending More Helicopters To Mars To Help Bring Samples Back
NASA launched Perseverance in 2020, trailing the Curiosity rover by nine years, and landed it on the red planet on February 18, 2021 to explore and extract material from Mars’ Jezero Crater. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter took snaps of the landing. Perseverance collected its first rock samples in September 2021 and these are now inside sealed sample tubes but are stuck on the fourth planet from the Sun. Whether these actually return to Earth is not a given and requires assistance from rovers by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA)....