{"id":153422,"date":"2022-12-22T13:26:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T19:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nasas-perseverance-rover-drops-first-sample-on-mars-to-return-it-to-earth-one-day"},"modified":"2022-12-22T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T19:26:32","slug":"nasas-perseverance-rover-drops-first-sample-on-mars-to-return-it-to-earth-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nasas-perseverance-rover-drops-first-sample-on-mars-to-return-it-to-earth-one-day","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover drops first sample on Mars, to return it to Earth one day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4czjS9h4Fpg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing our first sample on the ground is a great capstone to our prime mission period, which ends on Jan. 6.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019S Perseverance Mars rover has dropped its first rock sample on the Red Planet\u2019s surface. A titanium tube containing a rock sample on December 21 that was deposited on the surface of Mars is likely to be the first sample that could return to Earth. The event marks a \u201chistoric\u201d step in the Mars Sample Return campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The first sample comprised a chalk-size core of igneous rock called \u201cMalay\u201d. This sample was collected on January 31, 2022, from a region in the Jezero Crater called \u201cSouth Seitah\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Perseverance has 17 other samples in its belly.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/MSSS<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nasas-perseverance-rover-drops-first-sample-on-mars-to-return-it-to-earth-one-day\">Continue reading \u201cNASA\u2019s Perseverance rover drops first sample on Mars, to return it to Earth one day\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSeeing our first sample on the ground is a great capstone to our prime mission period, which ends on Jan. 6.\u201d NASA\u2019S Perseverance Mars rover has dropped its first rock sample on the Red Planet\u2019s surface. A titanium tube containing a rock sample on December 21 that was deposited on the surface of Mars is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153422","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}