NASA's Mars Sample Return program is designed to do just what its name suggests ... use a sophisticated robotic arm (or perhaps robotic drones like NASA's Ingenuity Mars helictoper) to collect the ...

American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS Recent exceptional rock discoveries have only mounted pressure on NASA to solve the problems facing its Mars Sample Return mission, its plan to fly bits of ...

"If they want to have a Mars sample return, which I can't imagine that they don't, I don't think we want the only sample return coming back on a Chinese spacecraft." He called a planned Chinese ...

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission, known as Mars Sample Return, for the incoming administration.

NASA's Mars Sample Return program is designed to do just what ... use a sophisticated robotic arm (or perhaps robotic drones like NASA's Ingenuity Mars helictoper) to collect the samples from ...

The Mars Sample Return mission, a joint NASA and European ... that powered Perseverance’s cruise stage spacecraft and the Ingenuity Mars helicopter. It is also developing the twin spacecraft ...

NASA's Mars Sample Return program is designed to do just what its name suggests ... use a sophisticated robotic arm (or perhaps robotic drones like NASA's Ingenuity Mars helictoper) to collect the ...