{"id":158120,"date":"2023-02-15T16:25:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T22:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/images-nasa-perseverance-samples-aid-search-for-ancient-life-on-mars"},"modified":"2023-02-15T16:25:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T22:25:45","slug":"images-nasa-perseverance-samples-aid-search-for-ancient-life-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/images-nasa-perseverance-samples-aid-search-for-ancient-life-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Images: NASA Perseverance samples aid search for ancient life on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/images-nasa-perseverance-samples-aid-search-for-ancient-life-on-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Perseverance rover has spent close to two years on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover has spent just under two years collecting samples and beaming images of the red planet back to Earth. During that time, Perseverance placed several Mars rock sample tubes on the Martian surface as backup samples in case anything happened to the rover\u2019s main sample cache.<\/p>\n<p>The highly-ambitious Mars Sample Return mission aims to develop the technology to collect and transport the samples back to Earth by the early 2030s.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the rover has beamed back images of its path in recent months, including the positions of its 10 backup samples.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/ASU\/MSSS<\/p>\n<p>During that time, Perseverance placed several Mars rock sample tubes on the Martian surface as backup samples in case anything happened to the rover\u2019s main sample cache.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/images-nasa-perseverance-samples-aid-search-for-ancient-life-on-mars\">Continue reading \u201cImages: NASA Perseverance samples aid search for ancient life on Mars\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Perseverance rover has spent close to two years on Mars. NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover has spent just under two years collecting samples and beaming images of the red planet back to Earth. During that time, Perseverance placed several Mars rock sample tubes on the Martian surface as backup samples in case anything happened to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158120","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=158120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}