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Mars 2020 Mars Sample Return Briefing with representatives from NASA, the European Space Agency, and the University...
This image shows a concept model of NASA's orbiting sample container, which will hold tubes of Martian rock and soil...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a sample cored from a rock called "Bunsen Peak" on March 12,...
This image of Martian regolith – broken rock and dust – was captured Dec. 2, 2022, by the Sampling and Caching...
This is the first high-resolution, color image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside of...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rock core nicknamed "Otis Peak" on June 12, 2023, the 822nd...
NASA's Perseverance rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this enhanced color view of the eroded eastern edge...
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,...
Shown here is an annotated composite image of the interiors of the 33 tubes NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has used...
Shown here is an annotated representation of the 13 sample tubes containing rock-core samples that are being carried...
This map shows where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will be dropping 10 samples that a future mission could pick up....
This image shows the rocky outcrop the Perseverance science team calls "Berea" after the NASA Mars rover extracted a...
Perseverance chief engineer, JPL, Adam Steltzner, shows a sample tube that will hold sample core’s collected from...
Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, shows a sample tube that will hold...
Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, shows a sample tube that will hold...
Shown here is a representation of the 21 sample tubes (containing rock, regolith, atmosphere, and witness materials)...
This high-resolution image shows one of the six wheels aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, which landed on Feb....
Members of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission celebrate on Feb. 18, 2021, after learning the spacecraft has...
This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA's Perseverance rover touched...
This panorama, taken on Feb. 20, 2021, by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover,...
This illustration shows Jezero Crater — the landing site of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover — as it may have looked...
This is one of the first images NASA's Perseverance rover sent back after touching down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021....
This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples of rocks and soil...