An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample ...

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

Mars Sample Retrieval Lander Concept Illustration ... has been collecting and storing samples in specially designed sealed titanium tubes that are roughly the size of a cigar.

The components that make up the landers and equipment span a range of materials designed to withstand the harsh environment on Mars − metals like titanium, aluminum and steel, polymers in ...

NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples to Earth through a ... we want to return 30 titanium tubes as soon as possible at the cheapest price." NASA plans to finalize ...

Given that the Perseverance rover has already obtained 28 samples of rock, soil and atmosphere on Mars in cigar-sized titanium tubes, and given the decadeslong desire of the scientific community ...

NASA has set a goal to return rock and soil samples from the surface of Mars in the 2030s. The mission would represent the first time scientific samples from another planet have been returned to ...

The Mars Sample Return program is a joint NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) initiative that so far has collected 28 titanium-sealed tubes containing cigar-sized samples dug up by NASA’s ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in 2021, has been collecting samples in cigar-sized titanium tubes as part of the agency’s quest to uncover evidence of ancient microbial life.

“We want to return 30 titanium tubes as soon as possible at ... things by having the sample tubes cleaned on the surface of Mars, versus in the returning spacecraft, and switching from solar ...