The Mars Sample Return is one of NASA’s flagship ... In fact, the European Space Agency is wholly responsible for the Earth Return Orbiter. Plus, the potential for the mission may make the ...

China on Thursday extended an invitation for international cooperation on its upcoming Tianwen-3 Mars sample-return mission, ...

In its announcement on Thursday, the administration said it has allocated 15 kilograms of payload capacity on the orbiter and ...

It will take two launches to carry out the Mars sample-return mission due to the limited carrying capacities of the current rockets. Two Long March-5 carrier rockets will be used for the mission, Liu ...

Clouds of water ice can be seen drifting over ancient volcanoes on Mars ... d need to return the samples to Earth. Collected in July 2024 by Perseverance, the Cheyava Falls sample contains ...

The most optimistic estimates say the Mars Sample Return mission will not be completed before the 2040s, and that it will cost billions. Time and money that could be very well spent, as they might ...

What sort of strategy would you recommend to explore Mars? To me, sample return is the essence. Almost everybody involved agrees that what we need to do is get samples back from Mars. We have all ...

which means there was enough time for life-forming chemistry to happen in these crater-lake environments on Mars,” said study coauthor Daniel Glavin, senior scientist for sample return at NASA ...

Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin The European Space Agency (ESA) just released some new snapshots from its Mars Express orbiter that detail the dynamic terrain of the Red Planet's Acheron Fossae region.

China has begun soliciting cooperation proposals for its ambitious Mars sample-return mission ... a service capsule, an orbiter and a reentry module. The mission is scheduled to launch around ...

China on Thursday extended an invitation for international cooperation on its upcoming Tianwen-3 Mars sample-return mission ... service module, orbiter, and return module, and is equipped with ...