{"id":126016,"date":"2021-08-09T05:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/perseverances-first-sample-collection-fails-new-science-points-to-subsurface-martian-clay-lakes"},"modified":"2021-08-09T05:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:22:17","slug":"perseverances-first-sample-collection-fails-new-science-points-to-subsurface-martian-clay-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/perseverances-first-sample-collection-fails-new-science-points-to-subsurface-martian-clay-lakes","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance\u2019s first sample collection fails, new science points to subsurface Martian clay lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/perseverances-first-sample-collection-fails-new-science-points-to-subsurface-martian-clay-lakes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Perseverance Mars rover recently attempted its first-ever sample collection of the Martian surface on August 6. However, data shows that while the rover\u2019s drill successfully drilled into the surface, no regolith was collected in the sample tube.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as Perseverance was preparing for the sample collection event, a team of researchers using ESA\u2019s Mars Express orbiter found evidence that previously thought of lakes of water underneath Mars\u2019 south pole might actually be made of clay.<\/p>\n<p><b>Perseverance\u2019s sample collection failure<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On August 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/?s=perseverance\">Perseverance\u2019s 2-meter robotic arm lowered to the Martian surface<\/a>, where a drill located at the end of the arm began carving into the local rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Perseverance Mars rover recently attempted its first-ever sample collection of the Martian surface on August 6. However, data shows that while the rover\u2019s drill successfully drilled into the surface, no regolith was collected in the sample tube. Meanwhile, as Perseverance was preparing for the sample collection event, a team of researchers using ESA\u2019s Mars [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,224,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-science","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}