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The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them ...
NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.
But, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson determined that the agency’s previously proposed Mars Sample Return Mission would take ...
Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s are now on the table, ...
The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ancient life on Mars.
The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.
NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a lower cost.
NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...