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This animation shows the data collected on a Mars 2020 sample tube using a computerized tomography (CT) scanner....
This image, taken in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shows sample tube number 266, which was used...
This illustration depicts the exterior of a sample tube being carried aboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. About...
This illustration depicts the interior of a sample tube being carried aboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. About...
A technician working on the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission takes a sample from the surface of sample tube 241...
Six facsimile sample tubes hang on the sample tube board in the offices of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover mission at...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is filling sample tubes with rocky material on the Red Planet as the agency works on...
A tray holding 39 sample tubes headed to Mars is installed into the Perseverance rover on May 21, 2020, in a clean...
AS12-49-7286 (20 Nov. 1969) --- Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot, drives a core sample tube into the lunar...
Shown here is an annotated composite image of the interiors of the 33 tubes NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has used...
Planetary protection engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California swab engineering models of...
The first cored sample of Mars rock is visible (at center) inside a titanium sample collection tube in this from the...
This Mastcam-Z image shows a sample of Mars rock inside the sample tube on Sept. 1, 2021 (the 190th sol, or Martian...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with nine of the 10 sample tubes it deposited at a sample depot created...
This enhanced-color image from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover shows a sample tube inside...
As part of its search for signs of ancient life on Mars, Perseverance is the first rover to bring a sample caching...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover dropped the last of 10 tubes at the "Three Forks" sample depot on Jan. 28, 2023, the...
NASA's Mars 2020 rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions...
ISS026-E-029707 (25 Feb. 2011) --- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, Expedition 26 flight engineer, labels surface...
This image taken by the Mastcam-Z camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on Jan. 20, 2022, shows that the...
This illustration shows a concept of what a rover fetching rock and soil samples on Mars for return to Earth could...
iss049e035512 (10/14/2016) --- NASA astronaut Kate Rubins during Microbe IV Sampling Sheet and White Tube Collection...
iss073e0001398 (April 23, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers prepares mixture...
A model Sample Recovery Helicopter drives and positions itself over a sample tube during a test in the Mars Yard at...