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NASA's Mars Sample Return is dead, leaving China to retrieve signs of life from the Red Planet

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...
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A NASA Mission to Bring Samples From Mars Back to Earth Has Been Canceled

It looks like NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has come to a bureaucratic end. The mission was to be the crowning ...
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NASA's mission to bring back Mars sample halts in its tracks

The mission is not deemed feasible given the high budget it demands and the uncertainty around its operations.

NASA Gives Update On The Perseverance Rover's Future After 5 Years On Mars

NASA's latest update on Perseverance shows how the Mars rover is holding up after five years and what that means for future ...
Nature

NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...
SpaceNews

Perseverance continues science mission amid uncertainty about Mars Sample Return

A “selfie” taken by the Perseverance Mars rover as it examines Cheyava Falls, an arrowhead-shaped rock in the center that contains potential biosignatures of past Martian life. Credit: ...
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NASA Perseverance rover sees megaripples on Mars | Space photo of the day for Jan. 7, 2026.

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars' landscape truly is.
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NASA Lands Perseverance Rover on the Mars Surface, Carrying the First Helicopter for Another Planet

NASA successfully landed its fifth robotic rover, Perseverance, on the surface of Mars on Thursday after its six-month voyage from Earth. "Touchdown confirmed," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...