NASA officials have announced that they have no plan to return to Earth samples of Martian rocks that could contain signs of life.The agency's Perseverance rover has been exploring the surface of the Red Planet for more than three years, collecting rock and soil samples to provide evidence of life. By all accounts, Perseverance was successful in its mission to collect samples – but bringing those samples home is a different story. A recent report showed that NASA's original plan to return the...
Perseverance has collected samples for three years, looking for evidence of life. But there is not yet a plan in the works for bringing these samples back to Earth. NASA officials said the current sample return plan will be too slow and too costly. READ MORE:
As part of our never-ending search for alien life (and, well, knowledge about space), NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been orbiting the moon since it was launched on June 18, 2009. According to NASA, “LRO’s primary goal was to make a 3D map of the moon’s surface from lunar polar orbit as part of […]
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has caught a peculiar sight while orbiting the moon. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has caught a peculiar sight while orbiting the moon, capturing images of an object in motion near its trajectory.
NASA is preparing to make a big announcement about the future of the Mars Sample Return mission which was called into question by a damning report last year.
NASA’s plan to bring samples from Mars back to Earth is on hold until there’s a faster, cheaper way, space agency officials said Monday.
The US space agency is seeking a cheaper, faster solution to bring Martian rocks to Earth for study.
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NASA is seeking innovative methods that could help retrieve samples collected by the Perseverance rover on Mars in the future.
NASA is seeking innovative methods that could help retrieve samples collected by the Perseverance rover on Mars in the future.
"AAs we have seen already, dunes that withstood the test of time for centuries are now eroding from the onslaught of 100-year storms."