Mars Rover Climbs Jezero Crater

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NASA's Perseverance rover looks back while climbing slippery slope

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NASA 's Perseverance Mars rover is negotiating a steeply sloping route up Jezero Crater's western wall.

The rover captured the view near a location the team calls " Faraway Rock" Visible on the right side of the mosaic is a slope of about 20 degrees .

This is the first time the rover has traveled that steep a grade on such a slippery surface.

NASA decided to retire two of the spare empty tubes because accessing them would pose a risk to the rover's small internal robotic sample-handling arm needed for the task: A wire harness connected to the arm could catch on a fastener on the rover's frame when reaching for the two empty sample tubes. With those spares now retired, Perseverance currently has 11 empty tubes for sampling rock and two empty witness tubes. Provided by NASAThis story was originally published on Phys.org . Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates..

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