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These sets of images were taken between March 13 and 15, 2021 (the 22nd and 24th Martian days, or sols, of NASA's...
This picture shows one prototype for hardware to cache samples of cores drilled from Martian rocks for possible...
As part of its search for signs of ancient life on Mars, Perseverance is the first rover to bring a sample caching...
This annotated image from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shows its wheel tracks in Jezero Crater and a distant view...
The first cored sample of Mars rock acquired by NASA's Perseverance rover is sealed inside its titanium container...
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...
The first cored sample of Mars rock is visible (at center) inside a titanium sample collection tube in this from the...
The bit carousel, which lies at the heart of Sample Caching System of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, is attached to the...
This image shows a core, about 2.8 inches (71.1 millimeters) in length, collected from a basaltic rock during a test...
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers prepare to...
Perseverance's Sampling and Caching System Camera, or CacheCam, captured this time-lapse series of images of the...
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory lift the Mars 2020 rover's bit carousel out of its storage container....
The location where NASA's Perseverance will begin depositing its first cache of samples is shown in this image taken...
This diagram, superimposed on a photo of Martian landscape, illustrates a concept called "adaptive caching," which...
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover lives up to its name by enduring a series of tests to prepare for its journey to...
As part of a Mars sample return mission, a rocket will carry a container of sample tubes with Martian rock and soil...
In this illustration of a Mars sample return mission concept, a robotic arm transfers samples of Martian rock and...
This illustration shows a concept of how the NASA Mars Ascent Vehicle, carrying tubes containing rock and soil...
This illustration shows a concept of what a rover fetching rock and soil samples on Mars for return to Earth could...
This illustration shows a concept for a set of future robots working together to ferry back samples from the surface...
In this illustration of a Mars sample return mission concept, a lander carrying a fetch rover touches down on the...
This illustration of a Mars sample return mission's lander concept shows a spacecraft after touchdown on the Red...