Astronomy Picture of the Day: NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Foiled in First Attempt to Grab Rock for Return to Earth

The Mars rover Persevance, or "Percy," drilled into a rock, extracted a sample and processed it ... but apparently didn't collect it successfully. The NASA mission team is scrambling to figure out what went wrong. https://t.co/iAijJbLl0V

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