NASA announces major overhaul of ambitious Mars Sample Return mission
NASA announced that it is overhauling its highly anticipated but troubled mission to bring pieces of Mars back to Earth as ...
NASA seeks ‘Hail Mary’ for mission to return Mars rocks
The mission, known as Mars Sample Return, is central to the search for signs that life may have existed on the red planet.
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NASA rethinks plan to return rare Mars samples to Earth
Scientists believe the samples could help them better understand whether life ever existed on Mars. The original design for the Mars Sample Return program, a partnership between NASA and the ...
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NASA says it's revising the Mars Sample Return mission due to cost, long wait time
NASA's mission is to return rock ... is not able to bring the sample tubes to the lander or in case sample tubes are ...
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NASA's Mars sample return plan is getting a major overhaul: 'The bottom line is $11 billion is too expensive'
The agency has had a Mars sample-return (MSR) architecture in place ... cost of MSR to be between $2.5 and $3 billion. A team from within NASA analyzed those September results, determining that ...
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Too expensive, too slow: NASA asks for help with JPL’s Mars Sample Return mission
NASA’s decision to outsource a solution to the Mars Sample Return problem frustrated some Mars scientists ... “That is the leadership required to be the nation leading the world in space ...
NASA seeks new path for Mars Sample Return mission in face of budget cuts
What’s the trick? Get the samples back to an Earth-bound laboratory for deep analysis.
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NASA goes back to drawing board on Mars sample return mission
Current estimates put an $11 billion price tag on a Mars sample return mission, with the samples not reaching Earth until ...
Is Mars seeping methane? NASA scientists explain the gas's unusual behaviour on the Red Planet's Gale Crater
NASA's Curiosity ... of Gale Crater. Since scientists did not find any signs of current or ancient life on Mars, they did not expect the gas to be present there, as living creatures produce most ...
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NASA Seeks ‘Hail Mary’ for Its Mars Rocks Return Mission
The idea is to bring samples of rock and soil back to Earth so that scientists can prod and poke at them using their most sophisticated tools. NASA had hoped that Mars Sample Return would cost $5 ...