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 ...

Even then, it would take 12 years for the first phase of MSR to at last fly. On Feb. 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars and began collecting soil, rock, and atmospheric samples ...

Is the Mars rover’s rock collection worth $11 billion? Budget woes force NASA to reassess Perseverance’s travel plan, and seek cheaper ways of getting samples back to Earth.

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get them back to Earth.

The Perseverance rover has a special collection bit for picking up loose samples of Mars sand and dirt. It got to put the bit through its paces when it successfully picked up its first regolith ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent its two years on Mars imaging the planet’s surface and collecting rock samples that will, should all go well, be brought to Earth in the early 2030s.

The collection is a failsafe for the Mars Sample Return project, which aims to deliver Martian rocks to Earth ...

When NASA's Mars 2020 rover lands on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021, it will seek signs of past microbial life and characterize the planet's climate and geology. It is the first rover ever to carry a ...

This annotated image, captured by NASA's Perseverance rover, shows the location of the 10 sample tubes in the depot. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS Perseverance recently completed assembly of a ...

"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.

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

NASA’s Mars Rover Mission to Bring Samples Back Home From the Red Planet Is at Risk 6 minute read An artist's conception of the fetch rover approaching a sample collection tube. NASA/JPL-Caltech ...