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NASA Awards Mars Ascent Propulsion System Contract for Sample Return Mars Ascent Vehicle Launching with Samples: This illustration shows a concept of how the NASA Mars Ascent Vehicle, carrying tubes containing rock and soil samples, could be launched from the surface of Mars in one step of the Mars sample return mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image and caption › The award moves NASA and ESA a step closer to realizing Mars Sample Return, an ambitious planetary exploration program that will build upon decades of science, knowledge, and experience. NASA has awarded the Mars Ascent Pro...

Erich Brandeau is already working on the next stage of the mission — the lander, rover and rocket that will help return rock samples to Earth.

How NASA's Perseverance rover will send Martian rocks back to Earth for the first time ever By Sophie Lewis NASA's Perseverance rover completes Mars landing NASA's Perseverance rover successfully pulled off its hazardous landing on the surface of Mars — but more unprecedented challenges lie ahead. A decade from now, in 2031, it will be the first ever to send samples from the red planet back to Earth.  The plan, known as Mars Sample Return, or MSR, involves three missions spanning the next 10 years.  "The idea of bringing a sample back from Mars goes back decades," Ken ...

Scientific American As Perseverance Approaches Mars, Scientists Debate Its Sampling Strategy The car-sized rover is the first step in an ambitious effort to bring pieces of the Red Planet back to Earth, but some crucial details remain undecided By: Credit: Nick Higgins Credit: Nick Higgins For anyone invested in NASA’s decades-long efforts to robotically explore Mars, now is the time for nail-biting. Launched last July and barreling toward the Red Planet and Jezero Crater is the space agency’s Perseverance rover, cocooned in heat-resistant shielding and set for a terrifying, technicall...

How Mars 2020 Will Help Bring Part of the Red Planet Back to Earth February 9, 2021Caltech Out in the cold, empty void beyond Earth, NASA’s latest Mars mission is hurtling at 43,000 miles per hour toward the Red Planet. The mission, Mars 2020, passed the halfway point of its journey in October 2020 and is expected to touch down on solid ground on February 18. The mission is the first part of an audacious plan to do something humanity has never done before: bring a piece of another planet back to Earth. (NASA has retrieved rocks from the Moon, but it is not considered a planet.) This plan, k...