Aircraft on Another Planet Is Showing NASA a Thing or Two About Flying
23 Nov 2023, 12:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA is now using test flights of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars to inform the development of another generation of off-world aircraft
Autonomous Robot Learning to Pick Up Lightsaber-Like Tubes From the Surface of Mars
29 Sep 2023, 07:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency is hard at work teaching itself and a prototype rover how to pick up the samples of alien world the Perseverance is gathering
Northrop Grumman Successfully Tests First Rocket Engine Designed To Lift Off From Mars
16 Aug 2023, 08:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Approved in September 2022, the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return mission is far and away the most complex, advanced, and intricately sophisticated space mission.
Robot Training for Mars Sample Return Mission Has a Forced Star Wars Connection
26 May 2023, 14:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency is hard at work trying to get the procedures for retrieving Martian samples safely before the Sample Return mission launches
NASA Plans the Invasion of Mars by Means of Sample Recovery Helicopters
4 May 2023, 07:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA just announced it is working on two more Mars helicopter together with AeroVironment, both are meant for the Mars Sample Return mission
Video From Mars Shows Perseverance Rover Drilling the First Hole in a New Area
4 Apr 2023, 10:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Perseverance rover collected the 19th sample of Mars at the end of March, from a place where rivers are believed to have existed
Littering an Alien World: Perseverance Rover Shows Map of Where It Stashed Mars Samples
16 Feb 2023, 11:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The first depot of ten tubes containing Mars samples has been completed, NASA releases an image showing the location of each tube
Bits of an Alien World Are Coming to Earth and NASA Just Decided How to Handle Them
24 Jan 2023, 09:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Bits of an alien world will come to Earth early next decade on the Mars Sample Return mission, NASA's Johnson Space Center to handle them
NASA Perseverance Rover Prepares to Drop First Set of Sample Tubes on Mars
16 Dec 2022, 23:05 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / In the following weeks, Perseverance will build a sample depot on Mars. The rover will drop around 10 sample tubes in a region called the "Three Forks"
NASA Geeks Out at Possible Clues of Life on Mars, Even Tweets About It
18 Nov 2022, 12:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's Perseverance rover snatched its 14th sample of Martian soil, one that holds promising features akin to clues of life
Stunning Mars Sample Return Video Made Us Forget About Artemis I for a While
18 Nov 2022, 07:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA releases an animation video showing how the Mars Sample Return mission will unfold over on the Red Planet, many steps required for success
NASA Gives Lockheed Martin $230 Million to Bring Samples of Mars to Earth
16 Feb 2022, 12:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA trusts Lockheed Martin with making some of the most important pieces of hardware for the Mars Sample Return mission
NASA Testing Tech for “Most Sophisticated” Mission Ever: Stealing Rocks From Mars
14 Dec 2021, 14:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA has already begun testing the technologies that will make the Mars Sample Return mission possible by the end of the decade
This Is How Many Robots We Need to Steal a Rock From Mars
20 Oct 2021, 09:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This decade, NASA and ESA will launch the Mars Sample return mission which will bring a sizeable number of new machines to the surface of the planet
Northrop Grumman to Make MAPS for Mars Sample Return Mission
8 Mar 2021, 15:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Northrop Grumman was selected by NASA to make the Mars Ascent Propulsion System (MAPS) for the Mars Sample Return mission's Ascent Vehicle
Reverse Mars Mission Enters New Stage, Sample Return Hardware in the Works
24 Dec 2020, 12:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA and ESA agree to mature critical technologies and make critical design decisions for the Mars Sample Return Mission
NASA Ready to Bring Pieces of Mars Back to Earth
14 Nov 2020, 09:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Independent review finds NASA is prepared to go ahead with the Mars Sample Return mission scheduled for later this decade