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Perseverance carbon discovery raises the stakes for Mars sample return

The Perseverance rover has provided an important new data point to the debate about life on Mars, but the engineering lesson ...
Los Angeles Times

NASA punts Mars Sample Return decision to the next administration

NASA has two options for bringing rock and sediment samples from Mars to Earth, but will let the incoming Trump administration decide which course to take. An independent review board found that the ...
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Can NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return mission be saved?

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The Mars carbon sat locked in two ancient mudstones, exactly where life-hunters hoped to look

NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected complex macromolecular carbon locked inside two mudstone targets in the Bright Angel ...
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NASA will announce update to Mars sample return plans today. Here's how to listen in

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This Company Could Save NASA's Doomed Martian Sample Return Mission

Lockheed Martin is trying to position itself as a savior for many NASA missions currently facing the chopping block at the hands of the Trump administration. The administration has already detailed ...

One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions

What is not controversial is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. NASA’s best communications relay today is the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which ...
SpaceNews

Companies describe studies to revise Mars Sample Return

An illustration of the various elements of an earlier Mars Sample Return effort. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech LAS VEGAS — Companies selected by NASA to study alternative approaches to Mars Sample Return ...
ExtremeTech

Mars Sample Return Rocket Test Goes Off Without a Hitch

The new test proved the capability of a new propellant that will enhance the rocket's performance, making a sample return mission from Mars increasingly viable. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...
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As NASA’s Mars Sample Return Stumbles, China Is Looking to Beat Them to the Punch

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NASA has two ideas for how to get samples back from Mars

This photomontage shows tubes containing samples from Mars, as collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The agency’s Mars Sample Return Program plans to bring these samples back to study them in ...