Perseverance Rover dropped something on Mars’ surface while driving

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On March 13, 2021 NASA’s Perseverance Rover deployed/dropped some component (Mars Sample Cover) on the surface finding safe place to deploy Helicopter Ingenuity. This component either Mars Samples Depot (cover), or Ingenuity’s thing. Big panorama image was reconstructed and colorized by myself to analyze what happened with the rover. At a time and place of the team's choosing, the samples are deposited on the surface of Mars at a spot that the team designates as a "sample cache depot." The depot location or locations must be well-documented by both local landmarks and precise coordinates from orbital measurements. The cache of Mars samples remains at the depot, available for pickup and potential return to Earth.

Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech

Source for NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover page: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/

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