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The National Aeronautic Space Association (NASA) launched its ambitious Mars 2020 project in the July of 2020, with the mission aim that stated: “Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.” The rover it sent, titled “Perseverance,” along with its remote drone helicopter “Ingenuity,” landed finally on 18th February, 2021 on Mars’ famed Jezero Crater. And the rover has collected its first and second samples within the span of a week. Rochette and the Volcanic Origins of Mars A Martian boulder dubbed “Rochette” is where the first pair of rock samples were taken from, reports Live Science. The collected samples were sealed shut in a designated titanium
