Perseverance has stashed four out of 10 planned samples at the Three Forks sample depot on Mars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Perseverance rover captured this portrait of its recently completed 10-sample depot using its Mastcam-Z camera on Jan. 31, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie looking down at one of 10 sample tubes deposited at the sample depot it created in ...

Second time's the charm. Sample tube 266 contains the rover's first rock, which NASA hopes to bring back to Earth on future missions for further study. Reading time 2 minutes For the Perseverance Mars ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has recorded the first-ever off-Earth sample depot for posterity. Perseverance built that depot on a patch of Martian ground called Three Forks over the course of five ...