The Curiosity is about to sample the first stone on Mars

The Curiosity probe of the US Space Agency (NASA) prepares to take a third sample of rock on the surface of Mars after two failed attempts to analyze the viability of life on the planet.

The Curiosity probe is expected to take the first soil sample on Mars on October 7, but this work has been delayed when the probe's camera detects a bright object like a piece of plastic at the location form. Scientists believe that the bright object could be a fragment from the Curiosity probe.

The Curiosity probe area takes the first sample on Mars. (Photo: LiveScience)

Fragments of light colored material are judged as garbage from Curiosity probes. The team did not want to include these materials in a sample vessel on a probe ship, NASA's Curiosity mission team said on Live Science.

Therefore, scientists who controlled this probe released the soil sample and moved to another area to sample. On October 18, the Curiosity probe carried out the mission of making a second sample of rock samples on Mars.

However, the latest analysis shows that light-colored materials are actually a phenomenon of Mars not from the Curiosity. Scientists decided to destroy the sample for the second time and prepare for the third sampling.

'We are confident with the third sampling based on the latest reviews of bright materials. The new results show that this light material is derived from Mars and that it is mixed in the planet's rock , "NASA said.

The $ 2.5 billion Curiosity probe has begun screening and Mars has since landed on the planet on August 5. Currently, it is heading to the location called Glenelg to conduct a third sampling and will be the first to succeed.