Mars sample return

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Spacecraft in orbit and on Mars’s surface have made many exciting discoveries, transforming our understanding of the planet and unveiling clues to the formation of our Solar System, as well as helping us understand our home planet. The next step is to bring samples to Earth for detailed analysis in sophisticated laboratories where results can be verified independently and samples can be reanalysed as laboratory techniques continue to improve.

Bringing Mars to Earth is no simple undertaking—it would require at least three missions from Earth and one never-been-done-before rocket launch from Mars.

A first mission, NASA’s 2020 Mars Rover, is set to collect surface samples in pen-sized canisters as it explores the Red Planet. Up to 31 canisters will be filled and readied for a later pickup – geocaching gone interplanetary.

In the same period, ESA’s ExoMars rover, which is also set to land on Mars in 2021, will be drilling up to two meters below the surface to search for evidence of life.

A second mission with a small fetch rover would land nearby and retrieve the samples in a Martian search-and-rescue operation. This rover would bring the samples back to its lander and place them in a Mars Ascent Vehicle – a small rocket to launch the football-sized container into Mars orbit.

A third launch from Earth would provide a spacecraft sent to orbit Mars and rendezvous with the sample containers. Once the samples are safely collected and loaded into an Earth entry vehicle, the spacecraft would return to Earth, release the vehicle to land in the United States, where the samples will be retrieved and placed in quarantine for detailed analysis by a team of international scientists.

Credits: NASA/ESA

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Honestly that sounded like the literal meaning of a mission impossible

matthewnunes
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Anything is Possible ! Good luck NASA & ESA

ریحانارشد
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I’ve heard so many morons complain about space exploration being a waste of taxpayer money. As a taxpayer, I say DO IT! So many people don’t understand the importance of space exploration. A Mars sample return would be a monumental achievement. I’m still amazed at the sample returns humanity has already accomplished with Hayabusa, Hayabusa2, Luna missions 16, 20, and 24, and OSIRIS-REx (which has collected its sample and will hopefully return it safely to earth in 2023). I sincerely hope to not only see a Mars sample return in my lifetime, but also a manned Mars landing (as well as a return of humans to the Moon). Go ESA, go NASA!

ArizonaJewell
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As a taxpayer: Go, go go! I love your plan. =)
Best of luck and I hope you succeed!

theColJessep
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Let's build a wall on the surface and make Mars great again

ivanlovric
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Very cool I am confident that NASA CSA ESA will complete this mission

ethansingh
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I love how ESA is replying to some comments. Great guys!

shinycompi
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Ambitious & impressive! Good Luck 👍

inkitatus
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freakin' complicated and challenging as hell. I really hope they will be successful.

The_Crazy_Monkey
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i hope the Perseverence rover succesfully land on mars

greentea
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Just awesome! And it launches in less than 24 hours 🚀

RonKefa
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Can't we just order mars soil from Amazon?

kamranbashir
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This would be such a monumental accomplishment for mankind if they pull this off! NASA already proved they can pull off the first step when they landed Curiosity rover 2013

daltonmorgan
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Top of my list of things I want to see at Mars: people landing there.

Close second: the first rocket to take off from the surface of Mars, rather than landing on it. THAT would be a huge milestone if it succeeded! Not saying it definitely would succeed, but you can't be afraid to take risks.

percentilovelegos
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The math you need to go through to plan such precise mission millions away from earth is madness .

AkiZukiLenn
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They should use kerbal space program to show the mission

Bubblyhiccups
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Woah, how can that rocket go into Martian orbit? It looks so small!

beneluxia
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This is actually doable right now. But two immediate concerns taken from old films 1. An Andromeda Strain. 2. Martian cockroaches.

alexalex
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the mars sample fetch rover looks so much like the mars exploration rovers

SanjayVerma-bcbs
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In near future, human has 2 planets to live. Brother lives in earth, sister lives in mar

nguyenlong