NASA is looking to simplify plans to return a cache of science samples collected by the ongoing Mars Perseverance rover mission. The original architecture, conceptualized here, could cost up to $11 billion and return the samples in 2040.
Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech
The departing leadership of NASA outlined a simpler, less expensive plan to return science samples from Mars, hoping the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump and the new U.S. Congress will champion the plan to reality. After decades of groundwork, a carefully curated collection of...
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