NASA Mars Rover Perseverance to do a HISTORIC first!

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NASA Mars Rover Perseverance has been tasked with the mission to collect rock samples to examine the Red Planet’s composition and discover any rare elements. But recently, the Mars Rover faced an unexpected challenge - risk mission failure. Now, fixing problems and troubleshooting is nothing new for NASA. The Mars mission team that handles the robots is quite adept at handling these issues as the atmosphere and the various terrain based obstacles regularly mess with them.

Then what’s special this time? The challenge Perseverance faced this time is more complicated than ever. So, to fix it, the NASA Mars Rover team has decided to take a creative route to fix it and make the robot do something it has never done before.

Unexpected troubles for NASA Mars Rover Perseverance

NASA Mars Rover Perseverance has drilled and extracted a sample in December from a rock which has been named Issole. But strangely, it was not able to handover the sample from its arm to the carousel. A carousel is a component with an opening on the Rover’s body where Perseverance puts in the collected sample and a tube passes it into the rover for processing.

The Rover failed to transfer the sample to the carousel due to a group of pebbles blocking the opening. Perseverance first has to clear the debris out and only then it can handover the sample for processing. But Mars does not have gravitational pull like Earth and as the Rover also lacks enough moving parts. It is not as simple as shaking it off. In fact, it is far tougher to order the Mars Rover to let something go simply because it is so valuable. It will be a historic first, so to speak.

Stuck in a bit of a fix,Mars Rover Perseverance team has come up with a bold and unique solution comprising a series