NASA to Explore Two Landing Options for Returning Samples from Mars
Jan 7, 2025 · NASA is expected to confirm the program – and its design – in the second half of 2026. “Pursuing two potential paths forward will ensure that NASA is able to bring these samples back from Mars with significant cost and schedule saving compared to the previous plan,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.
NASA presents two new plans in the race to return samples from Mars …
Jan 7, 2025 · NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if the cache can make it back in the 2030s. CNN values your feedback
NASA overhauls plan to bring samples from Mars back to Earth - NBC News
Jan 7, 2025 · NASA plans to pursue both possibilities in tandem before it makes a final decision about which to use in 2026. Space industry experts had speculated for months about the fate of the Mars Sample ...
NASA to Host Media Call Highlighting Mars Sample Return Update
Jan 3, 2025 · The agency’s Mars Sample Return Program has been a major long-term goal of international planetary exploration for more than two decades. NASA’s Perseverance rover is collecting compelling science samples that will help scientists understand the geological history of Mars, the evolution of its climate, and prepare for future human explorers.
NASA will announce update to Mars sample return plans today.
Jan 4, 2025 · NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040. ... An assessment in September 2023 also found more bad news ...
Avalanches, Icy Explosions, and Dunes: NASA Is Tracking New Year on Mars
Dec 20, 2024 · This image was captured by NASA’s now-inactive Mars Global Surveyor. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Fast, warm wind has carved the spiral shapes over eons, and the troughs act as channels for springtime wind gusts that become more powerful as ice at the north pole starts to thaw.
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Avalanches, Icy Explosions, and Dunes: NASA Is Tracking New Year on Mars
Dec 20, 2024 · Martian spring involves lots of cracking ice, which led to this 66-foot-wide (20-meter-wide) chunk of carbon dioxide frost captured in freefall by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2015.
Mars - NASA Science
NASA currently has five active missions at Mars. NASA and the ESA (European Space Agency) are planning ways to bring the first samples of Mars material back to Earth for detailed study. The Mars 2020 mission Perseverance rover is the first step of a proposed roundtrip journey to return Mars samples to Earth.
After accident on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter could live on …
Dec 11, 2024 · NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, right, stands near the apex of a sand ripple in an image taken by the Perseverance rover on Feb. 24, 2024, about five weeks after the rotorcraft's final flight.