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    NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission is in trouble—but it’s a Vital Step to Sending Humans to the Red Planet tagged posts

    NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission is in trouble—but it’s a Vital Step to Sending Humans to the Red Planet

    May 1, 2024, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is in trouble—but it's a vital step to sending humans to the red planet
    Perseverance has been collecting cores from scientifically interesting rocks for their eventual return to Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

    NASA recently asked the scientific community to help come up with innovative ideas for ways to carry out its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. This was in response to a report by an independent board that deemed that its US$11 billion (£8.7 billion) price tag was too expensive and its 2040 timeline too far in the future.

    In brief, the ambitious plan was to collect rock samples cached inside containers by NASA’s Perseverance rover and deliver them to laboratories on Earth. Perseverance has been exploring Mars’ Jezero Crater, thought to have once hosted an ancient lake, since 2021...

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