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AS12-49-7286 (20 Nov. 1969) --- Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot, drives a core sample tube into the lunar...
Shown here is an annotated representation of the 13 sample tubes containing rock-core samples that are being carried...
The first cored sample of Mars rock is visible (at center) inside a titanium sample collection tube in this from the...
This enhanced-color image from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover shows a sample tube inside...
This Mastcam-Z image shows a sample of Mars rock inside the sample tube on Sept. 1, 2021 (the 190th sol, or Martian...
This image shows a core, about 2.8 inches (71.1 millimeters) in length, collected from a basaltic rock during a test...
This Mastcam-Z image shows Perseverance's drill with no cored-rock sample evident in the sample tube. The image was...
In this illustration, NASA's Mars 2020 rover uses its drill to core a rock sample on Mars. Scheduled to launch in...
The first cored sample of Mars rock acquired by NASA's Perseverance rover is sealed inside its titanium container...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a sample cored from a rock called "Bunsen Peak" on March 12,...
This picture shows one prototype for hardware to cache samples of cores drilled from Martian rocks for possible...
This image taken by the front left hazard camera (hazcam) aboard NASA's Mars Perseverance rover shows the cored-rock...
This animation shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collecting a sample from a rock the science team calls "Bunsen...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rock core nicknamed "Otis Peak" on June 12, 2023, the 822nd...
This image taken by the Mastcam-Z camera aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on Sept. 4, 2021, confirmed that the rover...
The robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its percussive drill to core and collect the "Main River"...
A dust devil whirled by in the distance as one of the cameras on NASA's Perseverance captured the Mars rover coring...
The bit carousel, which lies at the heart of Sample Caching System of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, is attached to the...
This lunar map shows the traverse plans for the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission. Areas marked include Lunar module...
A portion of a cored-rock sample is ejected from the rotary percussive drill on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The...
NASA's Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility is home to the most cherished -- and scientifically important -- relics of...
Shown here is an annotated composite image of the interiors of the 33 tubes NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has used...
Planetary protection engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California swab engineering models of...
S69-45002 (26 July 1969) --- A close-up view of the lunar rocks contained in the first Apollo 11 sample return...