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A Mars 2020 Sample Return briefing is held at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 28, 2020. Participating...
POSSIBLE METEORITE SAMPLES COLLECTED ON RECENT FIELD TRIP TO BANKHEAD NATIONAL FOREST, ALABAMA
A team KuuKulgur Robot from Estonia is seen on the practice field during the 2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample...
James Leopore, of team Fetch, from Alexandria, Virginia, speaks with judges as he prepares for the NASA 2014 Sample...
A pair of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) students walk past a pair of team KuuKulgur's robots on the campus...
The University of Waterloo Robotics Team, from Ontario, Canada, prepares their robot for the 2014 NASA Centennial...
The Stellar Automation Systems team poses for a picture with their robot after attempting the level one challenge...
Morgan Montalvo, an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, sets guardrails on the floor below a prototype of...
This setup is being used at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to test a 16-inch-diameter (40-centimeter-diameter)...
Patrick DeGrosse and fellow engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory review data from a recent test of a...
Tucked inside the Curiosity rover is a miniature chemistry lab designed to unlock the secrets of Mars. Principal...
Where are the Moon rocks? When they’re not being studied by institutions or enjoyed by museumgoers, NASA has a...
This image shows a core, about 2.8 inches (71.1 millimeters) in length, collected from a basaltic rock during a test...
This artist's concept shows the proposed Capture, Containment, and Return System, a NASA payload on the European...
This image shows a cylinder of rock the size of a piece of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA's Perseverance...
ISS030-E-257690 (26 April 2012) --- European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers, Expedition 30 flight engineer,...
S69-40749 (July 1969) --- Dr. Grant Heikan, MSC and a Lunar Sample Preliminary Examination Team member, examines...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with several of the 10 sample tubes it deposited at a sample depot it...
This annotated map shows the locations where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collected its first witness tube and...
S73-16007 (December 1972) --- A "mug shot" of Apollo 17 lunar sample no. 72255 which was brought back from the lunar...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover dropped the last of 10 tubes at the "Three Forks" sample depot on Jan. 28, 2023, the...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snagged two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – on Dec. 2 and 6, 2022. This...
S72-56362 (27 Dec. 1972) --- Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt (facing camera), Apollo 17 lunar module...
iss030e257689 (4/26/2012) --- European Space Agency (ESA) Andre Kuipers during Integrated Immune Blood Sample Draw...