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Meet the new Mars 2020 Rover: Perseverance

Los Alamos National Lab
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The new Mars rover, Perseverance, launches in July of 2020. The mission of this new rover is several-fold. Its primary and unique purpose is to collect samples that a future spacecraft can return to Earth. Every time a rover goes to Mars, it just stays there, with no way to fly back home. So we have never brought rock or soil samples back from Mars. This new mission proposes to change that. SuperCam is a collaboration of Los Alamos National Laboratory, supported by NASA, with the Institute for Research in Astrophysics and Planetary Science (IRAP) in Toulouse, France, supported by the French Space Agency (CNES), along with Jet Propulsion Laboratory and several Spanish institutions supported by the Spanish government. LA-UR-20-23807 ...more
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Meet the new Mars 2020 Rover: Perseverance
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The new Mars rover, Perseverance, launches in July of 2020. The mission of this new rover is several-fold. Its primary and unique purpose is to collect samples that a future spacecraft can return to Earth. Every time a rover goes to Mars, it just stays there, with no way to fly back home. So we have never brought rock or soil samples back from Mars. This new mission proposes to change that. SuperCam is a collaboration of Los Alamos National Laboratory, supported by NASA, with the Institute for Research in Astrophysics and Planetary Science (IRAP) in Toulouse, France, supported by the French Space Agency (CNES), along with Jet Propulsion Laboratory and several Spanish institutions supported by the Spanish government. LA-UR-20-23807

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Los Alamos National Lab

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