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Mars Sample Return is Underway with Mars2020 Launch

Mars Sample Return is Underway with Mars2020 Launch

Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 30, 2020

With the successful launch of Mars2020 from Cape Canaveral today the first stage in a long and complex sample return plan is finally underway. Mars Sample Return has been envisaged  for many decades but it is only since around 2008 that a feasible architecture has been developed. Mars Sample Return has the ultimate aim of […]

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Climbing Mt. Sharp from the ancient lake deposits at the the base, to more desiccated, sulphate-rich deposits higher up the mountain.

Climbing Mount Sharp: From Warm and Wet to Cold and Dry.

Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 1, 2020

  Mars Science Laboratory is entering a new extended mission phase and about to start addressing a key part of the MSL original scientific aims.  Gale Crater was chosen as a landing site for the Curiosity Rover because it has preserved a unique record of the transition from ‘Warm and Wet’ in Ancient Mars about […]

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