Filled with rock, the sample tube will be one of 10 forming a depot of tubes that could be considered for a journey to Earth by the Mars Sample Return campaign.
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NASA’s Mars Helicopter to Make First Flight Attempt Sunday
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen From Red Planet
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The milestone, which the MOXIE instrument achieved by converting carbon dioxide into oxygen, points the way to future human...
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Flight 52 Preview – By the Numbers
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Flight 52 Expected Flight date: 04/26/2023 Horizontal flight distance: 1191.522 feet (363.176 meters) Flight time: 138.88 seconds...
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Mars Perseverance Team Members to Be Recognized at Hispanic Heritage Awards
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The three award recipients – Diana Trujillo, Christina Hernandez, and Clara O’Farrell – are engineers from the NASA rover...
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Makes Surprising Discoveries
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The findings by rover scientists highlight the diversity of samples geologists and future scientists associated with the agency’s Mars...
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NASA to Host Briefing on Perseverance Mars Rover Mission Operations
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Members of the mission will discuss the rover’s activities as it gathers samples in an ancient river delta. Read...
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NASA’s Curiosity Captures Stunning Views of a Changing Mars Landscape
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Striking rock formations documented by the rover provide evidence of a drying climate in the Red Planet’s ancient past....
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Hightails It to Martian Delta
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The rover’s self-driving capabilities will be put to the test this month as it begins a record-breaking series of...
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