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This illustration shows NASA's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) in powered flight. The MAV will carry tubes containing...
This illustration shows a concept of how the NASA Mars Ascent Vehicle, carrying tubes containing rock and soil...
As part of a Mars sample return mission, a rocket will carry a container of sample tubes with Martian rock and soil...
Angie Jackman, manager of the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) project, holds a 3D-printed model of the tubes NASA's...
This illustration shows a concept for a proposed NASA Mars lander-and-rocket combination that would play a key role...
This artist concept of a proposed Mars sample return mission portrays the launch of an ascent vehicle. The solar...
One crucial step in NASA Mars sample return mission would be to launch the collected sample away from the surface of...
This artist concept of a proposed Mars sample return mission portrays the capture of a collection of Martian samples...
This artist concept of a proposed Mars sample return mission portrays an aeroshell-encased spacecraft approaching...
This artist concept of a proposed Mars sample return mission portrays a rocket-powered descent stage lowering a...
This illustration shows NASA's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), which will carry tubes containing Martian rock and soil...
This illustration shows a concept for a proposed NASA Sample Retrieval Lander that would carry a small rocket (about...
Compilation of b-roll for media. Collecting samples from Mars and bringing them back to Earth will be a historic...
Teams across multiple NASA centers and the European Space Agency are working together to prepare a set of missions...
In this illustration of a Mars sample return mission concept, a lander carrying a fetch rover touches down on the...
This illustration shows a concept of what a rover fetching rock and soil samples on Mars for return to Earth could...
In this illustration of a Mars sample return mission concept, a robotic arm transfers samples of Martian rock and...
This illustration of a Mars sample return mission's lander concept shows a spacecraft after touchdown on the Red...
This illustration shows a concept for a set of future robots working together to ferry back samples from the surface...
This image shows a concept model of NASA's orbiting sample container, which will hold tubes of Martian rock and soil...
This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples of rocks and soil...
All this week, the THEMIS Image of the Day has been following on the real Mars the path taken by fictional astronaut...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to take this image of flat terrain in Jezero...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to take this panorama of a proposed landing site...