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 ...
NASA asked for cheaper ways to get Mars samples. It had one all along.
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 rock, dust, and air collected by ...
NASA proposes cheaper, 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 ...
NASA Eyes SpaceX, Blue Origin To Cut Mars Rock Retrieval Costs
NASA announced Tuesday it may turn to Elon Musk's SpaceX or Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin to help reduce the soaring costs of ...
NASA studies options to rein in cost of Mars Sample Return mission
NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.
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.
Hosted on MSN4d
OTD In Space – January 3: Spirit Rover Lands On Mars
NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin rovers to land on the Red Planet. The other was named Opportunity. These rovers were ...
Mars is littered with junk. Historians want to save it.
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / LANL / CNES / CNRS Holcomb, whose team authored the paper proposing a Mars catalog in Nature Astronomy this week, is most worried about sand dunes. "The Spirit Rover, for ...
NASA Mars rover panoramic image altered to include purported fly | Fact check
The image with the purported fly in the post is altered, according to NASA. The images in the post match an authentic panoramic compiled from images captured by the NASA Mars Perseverance rover, a ...
Mars rover drivers face a steep and slippery slog out of a crater
What’s it like to be one of the few on Earth who can drive a rover on Mars?
Stars and Stripes1mon
Mars rover drivers face a steep and slippery slog out of a crater
NASA for several years has been formulating ... This has happened before: The Mars rover Spirit in 2010 got stuck in soft sand one day and never escaped. Like its predecessor and nearly identical ...