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Shown here is an annotated composite image of the interiors of the 33 tubes NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has used...
This photomontage shows each of the sample tubes shortly after they were deposited onto the surface by NASA's...
A closeup view or "mug shot" of Apollo 16 lunar sample no. 68815, a dislodged fragment from a parent boulder roughly...
Angie Jackman, manager of the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) project, holds a 3D-printed model of the tubes NASA's...
This animation shows the data collected on a Mars 2020 sample tube using a computerized tomography (CT) scanner....
This illustration depicts the interior of a sample tube being carried aboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. About...
A tray holding 39 sample tubes headed to Mars is installed into the Perseverance rover on May 21, 2020, in a clean...
Recovery team members load a container with the science canister from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission onto a C-17...
Recovery and curation teams join a container with the science canister from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission aboard a C-17...
Recovery team members load a container with the science canister from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission onto a C-17...
A C-17 Globemaster aircraft with the science canister from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission aboard takes off from Michael...
Recovery team members load a container with the science canister from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission onto a C-17...
Shown here is an annotated representation of the 13 sample tubes containing rock-core samples that are being carried...
The capsule contains cometary and interstellar samples gathered by NASA Stardust spacecraft. Here, the capsule is...
The incubation laboratory of the Sample Operations Area of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, bldg 37.
Our first asteroid sample return mission is back on Earth, a record ride in space for a NASA astronaut, and our...
View of Astronaut Reid Wiseman,Expedition 40 flight engineer,inserting urine samples in the Minus Eighty Laboratory...
View of Astronaut Reid Wiseman,Expedition 40 flight engineer,inserting urine samples in the Minus Eighty Laboratory...
This map shows where NASA's Perseverance Mars dropped each of its 10 samples so that a future mission could pick...
This artist concept of the proposed NASA Mars Sample Return mission shows the orbiter and lander, just after the...
Intrepid Systems Team member Mark Curry, right, answers questions from 8th grade Sullivan Middle School (Mass.)...
Intrepid Systems Team member Mark Curry, left, talks with NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and NASA Chief...
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck stop to look at the bronze statue of...
The OSIRIS-REx team has already pushed the boundaries of scientific exploration - going from ground-based radar...