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Compilation of b-roll for media. Collecting samples from Mars and bringing them back to Earth will be a historic...
This image shows a concept model of NASA's orbiting sample container, which will hold tubes of Martian rock and soil...
In this illustration of a Mars sample return mission concept, a lander carrying a fetch rover touches down on the...
The Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) is one of the flight missions making up the Mars Sample Return campaign to bring...
This artist concept of a proposed Mars sample return mission portrays an aeroshell-encased spacecraft approaching...
Raquel Villaneuava interviews Jessica Samuels and Austin Nicholas about the Mars 2020 rover and the future of Mars...
This artist's concept shows Mars Sample Return Earth Entry System. The vehicle would bring curated Martian samples...
The Mars Sample Return Campaign Science Group gathered at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech for an...
The Mars Sample Return Campaign Science Group gathered for their first meeting, at the Keck Institute for Space...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx curation team at Johnson Space Center rehearse sample opening in the newly built OSIRIS-REx...
This artist concept of the proposed NASA Mars Sample Return mission shows rendezvous of the orbiting sample...
This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples of rocks and soil...
This illustration shows the proposed Capture, Containment, and Return System, a NASA payload on the European Space...
During the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, pristine samples of Mars rock and regolith (broken rock and...
This illustration of a Mars sample return mission's lander concept shows a spacecraft after touchdown on the Red...
Press Conference- OSIRIS-REx Sample Return from Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. August 30, 2023. NASA Previews...
This artist concept of the proposed NASA Mars Sample Return mission shows the launch of the martian sample back...
This illustration shows a concept for a set of future robots working together to ferry back samples from the surface...
The OSIRIS-REx mission, launching in September 2016, plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023 so...
In this illustration of a Mars sample return mission concept, a robotic arm transfers samples of Martian rock and...
This artist concept of a proposed Mars sample return mission portrays a rocket-powered descent stage lowering a...
This artist concept of a proposed Mars sample return mission portrays the capture of a collection of Martian samples...
This illustration shows a concept of what a rover fetching rock and soil samples on Mars for return to Earth could...
The Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) is one of the flight missions making up the Mars Sample Return campaign to bring...