NASA Will Inspire the World When It Returns Mars Samples to Earth in 2033

NASA Will Inspire the World When It Returns Mars Samples to Earth in 2033

NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed in the Jezero Crater on February 18 2021, has been hard at work collecting Mars samples, and so far, it has collected 11 scientifically-compelling rock core samples along with one atmospheric sample. Now, NASA is devising a plan to get those samples and more back on Earth. The space agency has taken to its blog to reveal its updated plan for retrieving the Mars samples, and according to NASA, it's coming to the end of its conceptual design phase.
So, how is Nasa going to bring back rock samples from mars? Let’s find out!
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In just over a decade, a small capsule shaped like a flying saucer will blaze in from space and smash into an empty Utah desert. Inside the capsule, protected by shock absorbers, will be a precious payload: about half a kilogram of rocks gathered on Mars. After years as a dream, Mars sample return (MSR) is now a $7 billion plan, devised jointly by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). Involving three heavy rocket launches from Earth, two rovers, the first ever rocket launch from another planet, and a daring rendezvous between the sample container and a spacecraft that would ferry it back to Earth.
"It's as complicated as sending humans to the Moon," says Brian Muirhead, lead MSR planner at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
If successful, MSR would fulfill what a 2011 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said was NASA's top priority in the study of the Solar System. Rovers like Curiosity, the car-size robot now exploring Mars, are increasingly capable, but their mobile labs are no match for tools available on Earth. So, Like the Apollo Moon rocks, Mars samples would be valuable across generations as studies could reveal how a warm and wet Mars became cold and dry. Scientists could also get lucky and find evidence of life.
"This has got to be one of the greatest missions of space exploration," says space scientist Andrew Coates of University College London.
The first stage of MSR is nearly complete and mostly paid for: NASA's $2.5 billion Mars 2020 rover. After its launch in July 2020, the rover landed in Jezero crater near a fossilized river delta nearly 4 billion years old. Since then, the rover has been widely performing science experiments and occasionally drilling small cores of mudstones and other rocks that could hold signs of ancient life. Each sample, containing up to 20 grams of rock and grit, has been stored by the rover in a tube about the size of a penlight. NASA is likely to cache some tubes on the ground and keep others on the rover
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