A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return from Mars. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas astrobiologist leading the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is making history by collecting handpicked Martian samples for future return to Earth. Scientists are eager to study these specimens to unlock secrets about Mars’ ancient ...

Thanks to NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission, scientists for the first time in history are able to retrieve handpicked samples — ranging from rock cores the size of a piece of ...

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China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, is scheduled to be launched in the coming months from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, according to the China National ...

John Grotzinger, former project science for Curiosity’s mission ... ancient Mars, but it was uncertain if that water ever pooled to form lakes or shallow seas.” “The Curiosity rover ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has collected a sample ... and is a significant Martian discovery. The rover was launched on July 20, 2020 and landed on the Red Planet the following year, February ...

This move stems from water being found in soil samples recovered by Chang'e-5's 2020 mission to the ... lander, and rover units. Unlike NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter that flew as a traditional ...

Indian space programme's evolution, challenges, and future prospects, including ISRO's role, commercialisation, and private ...