A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR ... sample tubes and deliver them to a vehicle. That vehicle will then blast off ...

But, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson determined that the agency’s previously proposed Mars Sample Return Mission ... A ...

all with the intention of returning them to Earth in the 2030s via a complicated symphony of missions called Mars Sample Return. Both rovers have detected a variety of organic carbon molecules in ...

In the Senate hearing considering the confirmation of Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator, he and Senator Ted Cruz engaged ...

an ascent vehicle to deliver them to Martian orbit, and a spacecraft to bring them back to Earth. The most optimistic estimates say the Mars Sample Return mission will not be completed before the ...

But the Mars Sample Return mission is so complex and expensive that NASA is not working on it alone. It is partnering with the European Space Agency to get samples and safely return them to Earth.

which are based on carbon similar to much of life on Earth, certainly add more weight to the scientific merit behind the ambitious sample return endeavor. Such a journey to Mars and back may still ...

Clouds of water ice can be seen drifting over ancient volcanoes on Mars ... d need to return the samples to Earth. Collected in July 2024 by Perseverance, the Cheyava Falls sample contains ...

NASA won't decide on overhaul for Mars Sample Return mission until mid-2026 Scientists are eager to return these and other samples Perseverance collected to Earth to determine whether there was ...