NASA's 1st attempt to collect Mars samples with Perseverance rover comes up empty

[Admin]

Perseverance drilled its first sample-collecting hole on Friday (Aug. 6), but data beamed back to Earth by the rover indicate that no Mars rock or dirt made it into the sampling tube.

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[sideband]

I hope NASA can fix the sample collection problem on Perseverance. I expect they soon will, but if they can't then they can scrub existing Mars sample return mission plans as they rely on retrieving samples taken by Perseverance!