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Exploration advocates are pushing back against the planned cancellation of NASA's Mars sample return project, saying it could potentially find evidence of Red Planet life.
NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...
China plans to launch two heavy-lift Long March 5 rockets with elements of the Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission in 2028, the mission’s chief designer said Thursday. In a presentation at a Chinese ...
NASA is looking for ways to get rock samples back from Mars for less than the $11 billion the agency would need under its own plan, so last month, officials put out a call to industry to propose ideas ...
Marvels of engineering, the rover’s sample tubes must be tough enough to safely bring Red Planet samples on the long journey back to Earth in immaculate condition. The tubes carried in the belly of ...
Render of the Tianwen-2 near-Earth asteroid/comet orbiter spacecraft. Credit: CNSA HELSINKI — China will launch the Tianwen-2 mission to sample a near-Earth asteroid next year, an official with the ...
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NASA left 33 samples on Mars and has no plan to bring them back
In a stunning reversal for planetary science, NASA’s high-profile Mars mission to bring rock samples back to Earth has been ...
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