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April 25th, 2021
Credit: Mars Guy
Another installment of “Mars Guy” takes the viewer to the Perseverance rover at Jezero Crater.
Mars Guy is Arizona State University associate research professor Steve Ruff, a Mars geologist with decades of experience exploring the Red Planet.
Credit: Mars Guy/NASA/JPL-Caltech
This new video details the rover’s Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals instrument – mercifully shortened to SHERLOC.
Suit material
Mars Guy points out that the Perseverance rover carried pieces of NASA space suit material to the surface of Mars for long-term exposure testing in the harsh environment. The first extremely high resolution images have now been sent back.
Credit: Mars Guy/NASA/JPL-Caltech
Also onboard is a piece of the Martian meteorite Sayh Al Uhamer 008 (SaU008) – a meteorite found in Oman in 1999. It is the first Mars sample return, Mars Guy explains, a piece of Mars that landed on Earth to be returned to Mars via the Perseverance rover.
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