The NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return is a proposed Flagship-class Mars sample return (MSR) mission to collect Martian rock and soil samples in 43 small, cylindrical...

Roscosmos proposal, Mars-Grunt; and a JAXA proposal, Martian Moons eXploration (MMX). Although NASA and ESA's plans to return the samples to Earth are still...

2020s. NASA and ESA have long planned a Mars Sample-Return Mission. The Perseverance rover, deployed in 2020, is collecting drill core samples and stashing...

will load these samples onto the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), which, in accordance with the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return program, will deliver them to low...

"NASA to delay Mars Sample Return, switch to dual-lander approach". spacenews.com. Retrieved 28 March 2022. Clark, Stephen (9 April 2018). "NASA is...

cache sample containers along its route for retrieval by a potential future Mars sample-return mission. The Mars 2020 mission was announced by NASA in December...

biosignatures and biomolecules. There is also a proposal for a Mars Sample Return Mission by ESA and NASA, which would launch in 2024 or later. This mission would...

back samples from moons of Mars". The Japan Times. 10 June 2015. Clark, Stephen (20 November 2017). "NASA confirms contribution to Japanese-led Mars mission"...

Exploration". NASA Solar System Exploration. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2015-11-03. "Mars Sample Return". Esa.int. "Archived...

(landed on Mars in Aug 2012) has a budget exceeding $2.5 billion. NASA also has goals of collaborating with the European Space Agency (ESA) in order to...

2020, completed – first powered flight on Mars EscaPADE, launching August 2024, future NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return, launching 2027 and 2028, future Pioneer...

sample return missions are being planned like NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return that will pick up the samples currently being collected by the Perseverance...

Laboratory. "Missions to Mars – Beyond 2009". NASA. Archived from the original on 18 May 2008. "Aurora Programme – Mars Sample Return". European Space Agency...

Mars Express is a space exploration mission being conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA). The Mars Express mission is exploring the planet Mars...

ESA and NASA have supported the science and exploration missions of each agency. There are NASA payloads on ESA spacecraft and ESA payloads on NASA spacecraft...

Perseverance rover first to cache various samples for a later NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return that will incorporate a Mars telecom orbiter, now envisioned for the...

Franklin – To Mars and back". Retrieved 13 May 2024. "NASA, ESA Officials Outline Latest Mars Sample Return Plans". planetary.org. 13 August 2019. Archived...

The Mars Exploration Joint Initiative (MEJI) is an agreement signed between United States' space agency, NASA, and Europe's space agency, ESA to join...

March 2016). "Japanese mission of the two moons of Mars with sample return from Phobos" (PDF). NASA MEPAG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2016...

ExoMars rover Rosalind Franklin was planned to drill and analyze subsurface samples before the programme's indefinite suspension, while the NASA Mars 2020...

ExoMars (Exobiology on Mars) is an astrobiology programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian space agency (Roscosmos). The goals of ExoMars...

originally part of NASA's now-defunct Constellation program, and is now a key component of the space agency's Mars plans. Clark, Stuart; Sample, Ian; Yuhas,...

Machine, NASA Mars Express, ESA Mars Express: Home, NASA Mars Global Surveyor, NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: 2006 September 25, "Mars Express Close-Up...

some point, it will store the filled sample tubes in a designated area for the upcoming NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return mission. While Perseverance embarked...

along its route for a potential future Mars sample-return mission. The Mars 2020 mission was announced by NASA on 4 December 2012 at the fall meeting...

top priority of NASA's planetary exploration program in the decade between 2013 and 2022 should be to begin a NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return campaign, a four-mission...

Winningham of Southwest Research Institute. A NASA contribution to the joint ESA - CNES NetLander Mars meteorological mission was planned, consisting...

Mars Exploration of Mars Human mission to Mars Manned Venus flyby Mars sample-return mission List of launch vehicle designs List of missions to Mars Mars...

2021) Three Forks Sample Depot, backup sample Depot of Perseverance cached samples for return to Earth by NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return Mission (2022) Valinor...

Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover exploring Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. Curiosity was...