Sherloc returns from the dead: Detective work saves Perseverance rover on Mars
After six months of intensive troubleshooting, Nasa’s Perseverance Mars rover has successfully revived its Sherloc (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument. This critical tool, designed to search for signs of ancient microbial life, encountered a malfunction in January that rendered it inoperative. However, engineers at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory …