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S69-40945 (August 1969) --- This is a core tube sample under study and examination in the Manned Spacecraft Center?s...
When Apollo astronauts began bringing samples from the Moon to Earth over 50 years ago, NASA chose to keep some...
S69-60487 (1 Dec. 1969) --- A close-up view of one of the rocks brought back to Earth from the Apollo 12 lunar...
This annotated map shows the locations where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collected its first witness tube and...
S70-56433 (December 1970) --- Astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot of the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission,...
Over the past few years, a few unopened Apollo-era lunar samples collected during Apollo 17 have been opened by a...
Perseverance's Sampling and Caching System Camera, or CacheCam, captured this time-lapse series of images of the...
This animation shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collecting a rock sample from an outcrop the science team calls...
This image taken by NASA's Perseverance rover on Sept. 7, 2021, PDT (Sept. 8, EDT), shows two holes where the...
This illustration depicts the interior of a sample tube being carried aboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. About...
This image taken by the Mastcam-Z camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on Jan. 20, 2022, shows that the...
This illustration depicts the exterior of a sample tube being carried aboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. About...
This pair of images shows two cylinders of rock the size of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA's Perseverance...
These sets of images were taken between March 13 and 15, 2021 (the 22nd and 24th Martian days, or sols, of NASA's...
This artist's concept depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover on the surface of Mars. The mission takes the next step by not...
Perseverance chief engineer, JPL, Adam Steltzner, shows a sample tube that will hold sample core’s collected from...
This image shows the rocky outcrop the Perseverance science team calls "Berea" after the NASA Mars rover extracted a...
Benny Hopson from the Barrow (Alaska) Arctic Science Consortium drills a core sample from sea ice in the Chukchi Sea...
NASA’s Perseverance rover is well into its second science campaign, analyzing the composition of rocks and...
Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, shows a sample tube that will hold...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree panorama using its black-and-white navigation cameras, or...
Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, shows a sample tube that will hold...
This photomontage shows each of the sample tubes shortly after they were deposited onto the surface by NASA's...
This pair of images shows two cylinders of rock the size of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA's Perseverance...