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 Perseverance Rover Sends Sneak Peek of Mars Landing
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The six-wheeled robot’s latest data since touching down yesterday include a hi-res image captured as the rover’s jetpack lowered...
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Watch NASA Engineers Put a Mars Lander’s Legs to the Test
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Sturdy legs are needed to absorb the impact of the heaviest spacecraft to ever touch down on...
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NASA’s InSight ‘Hears’ Its First Meteoroid Impacts on Mars
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The Mars lander’s seismometer has picked up vibrations from four separate impacts in the past two years. Read More
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Where Should Future Astronauts Land on Mars? Follow the Water
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A new NASA paper provides the most detailed map to date of near-surface water ice on the Red Planet....
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NASA’s InSight Enters Safe Mode During Regional Mars Dust Storm
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The lander has taken measures to conserve energy; engineers aim to return to normal operations next week. Read More
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Gets the Dirt on Mars
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The mission’s first two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – could help scientists better understand the...
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Flight 46 Preview – By the Numbers
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Flight: 46 Flight date: No earlier than 02/25/2023 Horizontal flight distance: 1,461 feet (445 meters) Flight time (nominal, w/...
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Reroutes Away From ‘Gator-Back’ Rocks
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To avoid patches of knife-edged rocks, the mission has taken an alternative path up Mount Sharp. Read More
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