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View of Hourglass samples including Lunar regolith simulants, Martian moons regolith simulants, Alumina beads, Mars...
A semiconductor's usefulness is determined by how atoms are ordered within the crystal's underlying...
This illustration shows NASA's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) in powered flight. The MAV will carry tubes containing...
A semiconductor's usefulness is determined by how atoms are ordered within the crystal's underlying...
NASA's Mars 2020 rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions...
This picture shows one prototype for hardware to cache samples of cores drilled from Martian rocks for possible...
This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager MAHLI camera on NASA Curiosity Mars rover shows the first...
This mosaic of images from the Surface Stereo Imager camera on NASA Phoenix Mars Lander shows a portion of the...
This Mastcam-Z image shows a sample of Mars rock inside the sample tube on Sept. 1, 2021 (the 190th sol, or Martian...
S69-45002 (26 July 1969) --- A close-up view of the lunar rocks contained in the first Apollo 11 sample return...
NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, will make a daring attempt to “TAG” asteroid Bennu on Oct....
AS16-106-17340 (23 April 1972) --- Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, is...
Hiromi Kagawa and Kira Foygel working with blood samples in biosafety level 2 laboratory.
Hiromi Kagawa and Kira Foygel working with blood samples in NASA Ames Research Center biosafety level 2 laboratory.
The Oregon State University Mars Rover Team poses for a picture with their robot following their attempt at the...
The Oregon State University Mars Rover Team, from Corvallis, Oregon, follows their robot on the practice field...
AS17-145-22165 (12 Dec. 1972) --- Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot, with his adjustable...
The University of California Santa Cruz Rover Team poses for a picture with their robot after attempting the level...
Jerry Waechter of team Middleman from Dunedin, Florida, works on their robot named Ro-Bear during the 2014 NASA...
The Oregon State University Mars Rover Team follows their robot on the practice field during the 2014 NASA...
Mars Sample Return program manager, JPL, Bobby Braun, shows a concept model of NASA's orbiting sample container,...
Mars Sample Return program manager, JPL, Bobby Braun, shows a concept model of NASA's orbiting sample container,...
S75-23543 (April 1972) --- This Apollo 16 lunar sample (moon rock) was collected by astronaut John W. Young,...
On Saturday, November 26, NASA is scheduled to launch the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission featuring Curiosity,...