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ESA will be opening a moon soil container from Apollo 17 to uncover new scientific discoveries about the lunar planet.

NASA engineers have begun testing several robotics systems in preparation for the return of rock and sediment samples being collected on the surface of Mars by the Mars Perseverance rover.

Los Angeles, US, Dec 16 (EFE).- Scientists with NASA’s Perseverance Mars mission have discovered that the bedrock, across which the six-wheeled explorer has been rolling on since landing in February, might have been formed from red-hot volcanic magma, a key finding to know critical historical events on the red planet. The California Institute of Technology …

The findings by rover scientists highlight the diversity of samples geologists and future scientists associated with the agencys Mars Sample Return program will have to study.

Europes two-part mission to Mars, 2016 - 2022

Snatching chunks out of an alien world is no easy task. And safely carrying them on a 40 million-mile (55 million-km) journey is even harder. To ensure that everything will go accordingly, NASA has begun testing spacecraft prototypes by dropping them to the ground, simulating a lander’s contact with the Martian soil.

One of the more ambitious things the Perseverance rover currently exploring the surface of Mars has been doing is gathering samples of Martian rocks and soil,

In the history of humankind, exploratory missions to alien worlds are not something new. In pretty much all instances, these missions were about getting to a destination and transmitting back data about the place. As of last year, that changed.

Teams across multiple NASA centers and the European Space Agency are working together to prepare a set of missions that would return the samples being collected by the Mars Perseverance rover safely back to Earth.

After NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover landed successfully, BGSU alumnus Carl Sandifer ’05 received a lot of attention for his role in the mission.