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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its right-front navigation camera to capture this first view over the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 10, 2024, the 1,354th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
A photomontage shows tubes containing samples from Mars, as collected by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The agency's Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples back to study them in ...
In that scenario, NASA would use new commercial technology, untested on Mars, like a heavy lander, Nelson said. Both paths would cost around $6 or $7 billion and deliver the samples to Earth ...
Mars 2020 is a NASA mission that includes the rover Perseverance, the now-retired small robotic helicopter Ingenuity, and associated delivery systems, as part of the Mars Exploration Program. Mars 2020 was launched on an Atlas V rocket at 11:50:01 UTC on July 30, 2020, [ 4 ] and landed in the Martian crater Jezero on February 18, 2021, with ...
The NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return is a proposed Flagship-class Mars sample return (MSR) mission [3] to collect Martian rock and soil samples in 43 small, cylindrical, pencil-sized, titanium tubes and return them to Earth around 2033.
NASA announced Tuesday that it's exploring two landing options to move forward with its mission to retrieve environmental samples from Mars at a lower cost. The goal of the Mars Sample Return ...
In October 2009, NASA and ESA established the Mars Exploration Joint Initiative to proceed with the ExoMars program, whose ultimate aim is "the return of samples from Mars in the 2020s". [ 33 ] [ 34 ] ExoMars's first mission was planned to launch in 2018 [ 6 ] [ 35 ] with unspecified missions to return samples in the 2020–2022 time frame. [ 36 ]
He said the Senate currently is budgeting $200 million for ongoing development of the Mars Sample Return mission in NASA's fiscal 2025 budget. The House number is $600 million. Whatever number is ...