Comment by NetMageSCW
4 hours ago
Not true - only ten samples were dropped off at a “depot” close to each other. The rest are on-board Perseverance and can be picked up all at once, which was always the primary plan.
4 hours ago
Not true - only ten samples were dropped off at a “depot” close to each other. The rest are on-board Perseverance and can be picked up all at once, which was always the primary plan.
The point is that they’d have to be picked up and retrieved at all, even from Perseverance.
That alone is a separate multibillion dollar program just to do that.