A chalk stick size piece of Mars may contain evidence of ancient microbial activity, but the mission intended to bring it to ...

As stated in Chapter 8, the proper design and implementation of planetary protection measures will ultimately be critical to the overall success of martian sample-return missions. Mission success can ...

NASA has set a goal to return rock and soil samples from the surface of Mars in the 2030s. The mission would represent the first time scientific samples from another planet have been returned to Earth ...

Lockheed Martin has announced the details of a proposal to take over NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, tasked with retrieving the samples that the Perseverance rover on the red planet has ...

Spread the loveImagine holding in your hand a piece of Mars, knowing it might contain the fossilized whisper of ancient alien life. Now imagine that treasure, collected with painstaking effort and ...