NASA succeeds in taking a sample of Martian rocks

NASA’s Perseverance rover succeeded in taking its first samples of Martian rocks and placed them safely in a container for return to Earth..

And the US space agency, on its Twitter account, today posted a tweet saying, “I got it,” along with a photo of a piece of rock securely placed in a container attached to the spacecraft..

Perseverance had drilled into a small rock on Mars on September 2, but due to poor lighting conditions engineers at the Southern California Control Center were initially unable to see if the sample was really in the tube d. ‘extraction..

Now, new, better-lit images show the digging job was a success.

The sample, which is a little more than the thickness of a pencil, will be sent to Earth for studies.

Among other things, NASA wants to know if the rock contains evidence of microbial life spent on the red planet.