NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover showcases its extraordinary rock collection in stunning imagery. Each sample, carefully selected, is destined for Earth through the Mars Sample Return (MSR ...

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of its 26th collected rock sample, named “Silver Mountain,” using its onboard Sample Caching System Camera, located inside the rover’s ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about ... as collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The agency’s Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples back to study ...

Mars Rovers Trump's 2026 budget plan would cancel NASA's Mars Sample Return mission. ... Shuster is a member of NASA's science team for the collection and analysis of these samples.

Like the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers, the sample collection vehicle and Mars ascent vehicle could be landed on the surface by a “sky-crane,” a rocket-powered chassis that hovers about 20 ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...

"NASA’s rovers are enduring Mars’ harsh environment to collect ground-breaking science samples,” Nicola Fox, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said in a statement.

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, a smaller sample collection spacecraft, a smaller rocket to boost the samples ...

The rover landed on Mars in 2021 and soon drilled its first rock sample. Since then, as the rover has trundled through the alien dirt, its controllers have ordered the robot to collect samples of ...

For nearly half a century, NASA has been talking an awfully good game about its much-heralded Mars Sample Return (MSR) project. As long ago as 1978, the space agency requested funding to develop a ...