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NASA's Mars rover deposited the first sample of rocks on the Red Planet's surface so that they could eventually return to Earth for further analysis.

NASA is building the first sample depot on Mars after choosing a spot called Three Forks to drop some of the Martian rock samples the Perseverance rover collected so far. Read the article to know more details.

NASA's Perseverance rover has been actively gathering precious material since it touched down on the Red Planet in 2021. Recently, the machine depos...

It may look like a lightsaber sitting on the surface of Mars, but this titanium tube is a sample canister dropped off by Perseverance. This could eventually be the first pristine sample of Martian soil and rock returned to Earth in a future mission.

One of the most ambitious campaigns to return the samples from Mars safely back to Earth for in-depth analysis is already underway. Over the next few wee...

NASAs Perseverance rover is set to cache its first Mars sample in the next few days, the first of 10 it will drop over a roughly 30-day span.

In this week’s Space Café Brazil, Ian Grosner talked with Bruno Sarli, a Brazilian Aerospace Engineer. Bruno Sarli is a PhD Aerospace Engineer with 13 years of experience, most recently focused on space flight dynamics for the past seven years.  After graduating in Aeronautics in Brazil and Space Engineering in Europe, he moved to Japan where he obtained a PhD in Engineering while working for ISAS/JAXA as a researcher. In 2016, Bruno joined NASA Goddard Space Flight Center where he focused o...

/PRNewswire/ -- NASA has awarded a contract to Honeybee Robotics LLC of Longmont, Colorado, for the Mars Sample Return (MSR) – Capture, Containment, and...

Alumni Trio Help NASA, SpaceX Set Course for America’s Space Frontiers

Bob McDonald's blog: It has long been suspected that liquid water once flowed on Mars. Now the latest research shows that billions of years ago, Mars had a deep ocean covering hundreds of thousands of square kilometres.