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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...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx curation team at Johnson Space Center rehearse sample opening in the newly built OSIRIS-REx...
A model Sample Recovery Helicopter drives and positions itself over a sample tube during a test in the Mars Yard at...
NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, will make a daring attempt to “TAG” asteroid Bennu on Oct....
This illustration shows the proposed process for safely recovering, containing, and transporting Mars samples...
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 lander carrying a fetch rover touches down on the...
After the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission has collected pristine samples of Mars rock and regolith (broken...
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...
During the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, pristine samples of Mars rock and regolith (broken rock and...
This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples of rocks and soil...
This artist concept of a proposed Mars sample return mission portrays an aeroshell-encased spacecraft approaching...
Sampling Strategy
This artist concept of a proposed Mars sample return mission portrays the launch of an ascent vehicle. The solar...
Over the past few years, a few unopened Apollo-era lunar samples collected during Apollo 17 have been opened by 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...
This illustration shows a concept for a set of future robots working together to ferry back samples from the surface...
This artist concept of a proposed NASA and European Space Agency collaboration on proposals for a Mars sample return...
The Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) is one of the flight missions making up the Mars Sample Return campaign to bring...
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, its close-up images confirmed what...
Raquel Villaneuava interviews Jessica Samuels and Austin Nicholas about the Mars 2020 rover and the future of Mars...