NASA’s Mars rover missed its first attempt on rock collection

The Mars 2020 mission launched in July 2020 took off from Florida to search for samples from the surface of Mars to find out about extraterrestrial life that could have existed billions of years ago.

The plan was to derive rocks in a tube to be collected within the next few years and send them to earth to be tested in high-tech machines which cannot be settled upon Mars. With the mission in mind, the Mars Rover Perseverance was sent ....