Evidence of Life on Mars? NASA’s Bold Strategy to Recover the Proof
NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...
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NASA will announce update to Mars sample return plans today. Here's how to listen in
NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...
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Can NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return mission be saved?
NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and ...
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Dog-like robots train in Northwest caves to sniff out life on Mars
We’re long past the stage of imagining the inhabitants of Mars as little green men ... Monument in Northern California to test autonomous robotic “dogs.” ...
NASA defers decision on Mars Sample Return to the Trump administration
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...
NASA asked for cheaper ways to get Mars samples. It had one all along.
Recent exceptional rock discoveries have only mounted pressure on NASA to solve the problems facing its Mars Sample Return mission, its plan to fly bits of rock, dust, and air collected by ...
NASA collected Mars rocks to haul to Earth. It still hasn’t decided how.
The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...
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NASA hedges its bets on costly Mars rock mission
NASA has decided it's going to pursue parallel missions to attempt to retrieve samples of rock on Mars collected by rovers.
NASA’s plans to get Mars rocks delivered to the Utah desert are changing
Bringing Martian rock and soil samples to Earth is among the top priorities of planetary scientists. By studying fresh rocks ...
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NASA’s Mars Sample Return Program Faces Stark Choices
NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...
Moon rover-inspired robot could be a game-changer for Japan’s ageing farmers
Japan’s population is the oldest in the world, with few young people working in agriculture. But now its farmers are getting ...
This is how NASA aims to bring Mars rock and soil samples at a cheaper and faster rate
NASA proposes a quicker, cost-effective plan to bring Mars samples to Earth by 2030, reducing the mission cost from $11 ...