Why Mars Sample Return? Returning a carefully selected set of samples from Mars to Earth has been a major long-term goal of international planetary exploration for decades. Data from past missions to the Red Planet have confrmed that areas of Mars offered habitable conditions that were capable of supporting life in the past. Evidence indicates
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The Mars 2020 mission Perseverance rover is the first step of a proposed roundtrip journey to return Mars samples to Earth. Mars Sample Return NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) are planning ways to bring the first samples of Mars material back to Earth for detailed study.
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Dec 13, 2021 · Mars Sample Return seeks to bring select tubes back to Earth, where generations of scientists will be able to study them with powerful lab equipment far too large to send to Mars. Getting those samples into terrestrial labs would take a decade and involve European partners and multiple NASA centers.
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NASA, ESA to Discuss Mars Sample Return Mission
Jul 21, 2022 · The Mars Sample Return campaign may revolutionize humanity’s understanding of Mars by returning scientifically selected samples for study using the most sophisticated instruments around the world. This strategic partnership with ESA will be the first mission to return samples from another planet, including the first launch from the surface of ...
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NASA Releases Independent Review's Mars Sample Return Report A pair of quakes in 2021 sent seismic waves deep into the Red Planet’s core, giving scientists the best data yet on its size and composition.
Mars Sample Return NASA has identifed the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) in west-central Utah as the proposed landing site for samples from the surface of Mars. These samples would be gathered by a Mars Sample Return (MSR) campaign being planned jointly by NASA and UTTR emerged as the baseline choice for the
NASA to Convene Mars Sample Return Review
Apr 13, 2023 · NASA will convene a Mars Sample Return (MSR) Program independent review board, or IRB, to perform a review of current plans and goals for one of the most difficult missions humanity has ever undertaken: bringing samples from another planet to study on Earth.
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The Mars Sample Return (MSR) program being planned by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) would pick up the geologic and atmospheric samples being gathered by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover and return them to Earth in the early 2030s. The NASA-ESA team is working closely with each agency’s planetary protection