Perseverance drilled its first sample-collecting hole on Friday (Aug. 6), but data beamed back to Earth by the rover indicate that no Mars rock or dirt made it into the sampling tube.
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NASA's Perseverance rover fails in first attempt to collect rock samples on Mars - The Perseverance mission is assembling a response team to analyse the data and to ascertain when to schedule the next sample collection attempt.
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