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This annotated map shows the locations where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collected its first witness tube and...
This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples of rocks and soil...
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers prepare to...
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Sample Caching System...
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Sample Caching System...
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Sample Caching System...
Engineers use OPTIMISM, a full-size replica of NASA's Perseverance rover, to test how it will deposit its first...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to take this image of the location where three of its 10...
This diagram, superimposed on a photo of Martian landscape, illustrates a concept called "adaptive caching," which...
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide,Expedition 33 flight engineer,is photographed...
iss070e117532 (March 14, 2024) --- Expedition 70 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps prepares tubes to...
This illustration shows a concept for a proposed NASA Mars lander-and-rocket combination that would play a key role...
As part of a Mars sample return mission, a rocket will carry a container of sample tubes with Martian rock and soil...
ISS013-E-56052 (23 July 2006) --- European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Reiter, Expedition 13 flight...
jsc2019e063626 (Nov. 5, 2019) --- Sample 73002 after being extruded Nov. 5, 2019 from its Apollo 17 drive tube...
This illustration shows a concept of how the NASA Mars Ascent Vehicle, carrying tubes containing rock and soil...
This illustration shows a concept for a set of future robots working together to ferry back samples from the surface...
These sets of images were taken between March 13 and 15, 2021 (the 22nd and 24th Martian days, or sols, of NASA's...
jsc2019e063585 (Nov. 5, 2019) --- (From left) Andria Mosie, Charis Krysher and Juliane Gross, lunar sample curators,...
iss071e062589 (5/7/2024) --- A view of the Gaucho Lung Sample Pouch aboard the International space station (ISS)....
Gaseous Nitrogen Dewar apparatus developed by Dr. Alex McPherson of the University of California, Irvine for use...
Ian Clark walks past mission countdown clocks in the Perseverance offices at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...
This annotated image from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shows its wheel tracks in Jezero Crater and a distant view...
This illustration shows a concept for a proposed NASA Sample Retrieval Lander that would carry a small rocket (about...