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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
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There's a science waypoint a little further west that they are heading for, but have just detoured with a drive to the north and stopped at a large sandy ripple (it looks like it could be one of the mega-ripples that are found in this region.
I don't know if they have decided to make a new cache (outside the crater) or return to the first one before leaving all the samples. The first one was close to perfect, and we've seen a few potential good ones outside the crater as we have driven around. Looking at the potential life of the rover and its instruments the team are probably split between extending the science operations outside the crater, or returning to explore more or the inside, as we only looked at a relatively small part of the inside. As for MSR, it's looking dark at the moment, we'll just have to wait and see.