The rover has been operating in a region known as the Jezero Crater， just north of the equator and home to a lake 3.5 billion years ago， when conditions on Mars were much warmer and wetter than today.
根据美国宇航局8月7日消息，“毅力”号的首次火星样本采集并没有像计划那样顺利。“虽然这不是我们希望的‘一杆进洞’，但是，开拓新领域总是有风险的，”美国宇航局华盛顿科学任务理事会Thomas Zurbuchen说，“我相信我们有合适的团队来解决这个问题，我们也会坚持不懈地找到解决方法，确保未来成功。”
