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NASA’s plan to bring samples from Mars back to Earth is on hold until there’s a faster, cheaper way, space agency officials said Monday. Retrieving Mars soil and rocks has been on NASA’s to ...
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Video of descent and touchdown of Perseverance. Mars atmospheric entry is the entry into the atmosphere of Mars. High velocity entry into Martian air creates a CO 2-N 2 plasma, as opposed to O 2-N 2 for Earth air. [1] Mars entry is affected by the radiative effects of hot CO 2 gas and Martian dust suspended in the air. [2]
This system is also much more precise: while the Mars Exploration Rovers could have landed anywhere within their respective 93-mile by 12-mile (150 by 20 kilometer) landing ellipses, Mars Science Laboratory landed within a 12-mile (20-kilometer) ellipse. [7] Mars 2020 has even more precise system, and landing ellipse of 7.7 by 6.6 km. [8]
The space agency wants to get at least some of the collected samples to Earth sometime in the 2030s for no more than the $7 billion. That would require a spacecraft that goes to Mars to get the tubes and launches off the planet. Then it must rendezvous with yet another spacecraft that would bring the samples to Earth.
Currently, samples are being cached by Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover on the surface of Mars. Out of 43 sample tubes, 8 are igneous rock sample tubes, 12 are sedimentary rock sample tubes, [ 29 ] 1 silica - cemented carbonate rock sample tube, 1 gas sample tube, [ 30 ] 2 regolith sample tubes, 3 "witness tubes", [ 31 ] with 16 tubes remaining ...