NASA and ESA Agree on Next Steps to Return Mars Samples to Earth – NASA Mars Exploration

Perseverance’s View of Possible Future Sample Cache Depot Site: This annotated image from NASA’s Perseverance shows the location of the first sample depot – where the Mars rover will deposit a group of sample tubes for possible future return to Earth – in an area of Jezero Crater called Three Forks. The image was taken Aug. 29, 2022. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Download image ›


The agency’s Perseverance rover will establish the first sample depot on Mars.


The next step in the unprecedented campaign to return scientifically selected samples from Mars was made on Oct. 19…

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News Source: mars.nasa.gov


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