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NASA’s Mars Rover Mission to Bring Samples Back Home From the Red Planet Is at Risk
An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.
Mars rock samples may contain evidence of alien life, but can NASA get them back to Earth?
NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance these samples contain evidence of alien life.
NASA exploring two lower-cost options to go forward with Mars Sample Return mission
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’s Mars Sample Return Program Faces Stark Choices
NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them until 2026
NASA’s Answer to Mars Sample Return Problem: Develop Two Plans
The Perseverance rover has been collecting Martian rock samples since 2021, but NASA is still figuring out how to bring them back to Earth.
NASA's bold mission: Retrieving Mars rocks by 2033
NASA has announced potential plans to recover rock samples from Mars. Scientists will investigate whether there is extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. Bringing back the Perseverance rover, which has been collecting materials from the bottom of a Martian lake since 2021,
Delays and cost drive NASA's revamped Mars sample mission
NASA has announced potential plans to recover rock samples from Mars. Scientists aim to investigate whether there is extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. Bringing back the Perseverance rover, which has been collecting materials from the bottom of a Martian lake since 2021,
Evidence of Life on Mars? NASA’s Bold Strategy to Recover the Proof
NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...
NASA collected potential evidence of life on Mars. Now it’s pitching new plans to retrieve the cache
NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...
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NASA Unsure How to Bring Bits of Mars to Earth, Takes Two Years to Think About It
American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, will decide in late 2026 ...
Here's Why Rocket Lab Wants NASA to Pay It $4 Billion
With that in mind, Rocket Lab this week urged NASA to immediately launch an official commercial competition for MSR, and open ...
NASA scrapped its $11 billion scheme to grab Mars rocks that may point to alien life. Now it has a faster, cheaper plan.
NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The ...
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NASA Exploring Innovative Approaches to Bring Mars Samples Back to Earth
The first approach involves utilizing NASA’s proven sky crane technology, which successfully delivered the Perseverance rover ...
NASA proposes cheaper and quicker way to get Mars rocks and soil to Earth
NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars. Administrator Bill Nelson presented two ...
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Curiosity Rover Unveils Pure Sulfur Crystals on Mars: A Game-Changing Discovery
NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.