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NASA's Perseverance Rover collects its 13th rock core sample

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NASA's Perseverance Rover has successfully obtained another rocky sample from the Jezero Crater on Mars. This time, it's a two-inch cylindrical piece of fine-grained rock that has captured the rover's attention. Similar to other samples in its troupe, the rock specimens collected by the rover could shed some light on the origin of life on the red planet.