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This artist concept of the proposed NASA Mars Sample Return mission shows the entry, descent and landing sequence...
The Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) is one of the flight missions making up the Mars Sample Return campaign to bring...
This illustration depicts the Mars Earth Entry System for the Mars Sample Return campaign. The system would contain...
This artist concept shows the proposed NASA Mars sample return mission above the red planet.
This artist concept of a proposed Mars sample return mission portrays the launch of an ascent vehicle. The solar...
This artist concept of a proposed NASA and European Space Agency collaboration on proposals for a Mars sample return...
Teams across multiple NASA centers and the European Space Agency are working together to prepare a set of missions...
Engineer Abel Dizon explains how drop tests are conducted for a prototype lander being designed by NASA's Jet...
This artist concept of a proposed Mars sample return mission portrays the separation of an Earth entry vehicle,...
Jia-Rui Cook with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory moderates a Mars 2020 Sample Return briefing at NASA’s Kennedy...
Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, participates in a Mars 2020 Sample...
This illustration shows a concept for a proposed NASA Mars lander-and-rocket combination that would play a key role...
NASA and the European Space Agency are developing plans for one of the most ambitious campaigns ever attempted in...
This artist concept of a proposed NASA and European Space Agency collaboration on proposals for a Mars sample return...
This artist concept of the proposed NASA Mars Sample Return mission shows the orbiter and lander, just after the...
A Mars 2020 Sample Return briefing is held at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 28, 2020. Participating...
As part of a Mars sample return mission, a rocket will carry a container of sample tubes with Martian rock and soil...
After the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission has collected pristine samples of Mars rock and regolith (broken...
This artist's concept shows the proposed Capture, Containment, and Return System, a NASA payload on the European...
This illustration shows a concept for a proposed NASA Sample Retrieval Lander that would carry a small rocket (about...
Morgan Montalvo, an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, sets guardrails on the floor below a prototype of...
This illustration shows NASA's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) in powered flight. The MAV will carry tubes containing...
This illustration shows NASA's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), which will carry tubes containing Martian rock and soil...
This setup is being used at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to test a 16-inch-diameter (40-centimeter-diameter)...