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Atmosphere of Mars is much thinner than Earth's. The average surface pressure is only about 610 pascals (0.088 psi) which is less than 1% of the Earth's value (1 atm defined as 101,325 Pa)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars

@65dBnoise

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/instruments/meda/

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Any ideas why current caching process could take two months to drop 10x samples?

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9323/nasas-perseverance-rover-deposits-first-sample-on-mars-surface/

@65dBnoise Yeh I noticed cld be ~5% chance of standing up on wider end 👍

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I agree that #Ingenuity would provide much more value scouting upslope NW into #Jezero delta (using updated flight software) than flying more over crater floor.

https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/426/flight-37-preview-by-the-numbers/