Perseverance rock drop: 'This is a really big deal'

Nasa's Perseverance Mars rover is about to build a cache of rocks on the ground for later return to Earth. The materials have been packaged in small titanium tubes with the expectation they can be picked up by a future mission and brought home. It's a major milestone in the quest to find out whether there is life on Mars. Nasa's director of planetary science, Lori Glaze, spoke with our science correspondent Jonathan Amos.

20 December 2022

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