Martian history was made yesterday.
[Related:Once NASA engineers confirmed Malay was on the ground, the team positioned a camera at the end of Perseverance’s seven-foot long robotic arm called. The engineers moved WATSON so that it could look beneath the rover and make sure the rover’s wheels didn’t run over the tube.
Over the next few weeks, the team will have more chances to see whether the rover needs to use its special technique, as the rover deposits more samples at Three Forks.
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