What went wrong with Mars Sample Return
An edited transcript of an interview with Orlando Figueroa, chair of the independent review team that evaluated NASA's Mars Sample Return program.
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An edited transcript of an interview with Orlando Figueroa, chair of the independent review team that evaluated NASA's Mars Sample Return program.
The probes, designed for a 90-day mission, operated for years and changed the way scientists study Mars and the solar system.
Every flight NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter makes across Mars is a minor miracle. A communications glitch means uncertainty for the mission.
NASA currently has Mars sample return as their priority flagship mission not just for this decade but for the next one as well. They were recommended to do this in the 2012 decadal review. It is good for geology, nobody doubts that. But it is motivated mainly by the search for ancient life on Mars.
There aren't many close-up, high-resolution images of the ice giants Uranus and Neptune. The reason comes down to distance.