The sortie on Thursday (Jan. 19) covered about 584 feet (178 meters).
The plan calls for Perseverance to deliver those samples to a rocket-equipped NASA lander, which will launch the material to
orbit. Up there, the sample container will be grabbed by a European probe, which will haul it to Earth. These other spacecraft are scheduled to launch in the mid- to late 2020s.on Jezero's floor. The depot is a backup, in case the rover isn't healthy enough to deliver the samples to the lander later this decade. In that scenario, two small, Ingenuity-like helicopters that launched aboard the lander will collect the depot tubes one by one.
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