A Mars sample-return (MSR) mission is a proposed mission to collect rock and dust samples on Mars and return them to Earth. Such a mission would allow...

A sample-return mission is a spacecraft mission to collect and return samples from an extraterrestrial location to Earth for analysis. Sample-return missions...

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...

and human missions to Mars. An example of a Mars sample return mission is Sample Collection for Investigation of Mars. Mars sample return was the highest...

for 1975). The missions were to be launched on the failed N1 rocket. Mars 5M (Mars-79) – double-launching Soviet sample return mission planned to 1979...

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

Mars-Grunt, also known as Expedition-M (Russian: Марс-Грунт), is a robotic Mars sample return mission proposed to be sent to Mars in mid-2020s. It was...

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

(Chinese: 天问三号) is a planned Mars sample-return mission by China which would send two spacecraft (an orbiter/Earth-returner and a lander/ascent-vehicle)...

operational spacecraft on Mars surface after the United States. Future missions, including near-Earth asteroid sample return, Mars sample return and Jupiter system...

based on the success of Ingenuity. The NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return mission will not include the ESA Sample Fetch Rover and its associated second lander,...

about Mars. Thus there are 10 total vehicles currently exploring Mars: 2 rovers, 1 helicopter, and 7 orbiters. Various Mars sample return missions are being...

was an attempted Russian sample return mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. Fobos-Grunt also carried the Chinese Mars orbiter Yinghuo-1 and the...

be to begin a NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return campaign, a four-mission project to cache, retrieve, launch, and safely return samples of the Martian surface...

The Sample Collection for Investigation of Mars (SCIM) is a mission concept for a Mars air and dust sample return. It was a semi-finalist at the Mars Scout...

extraterrestrial samples (astromaterials) obtained by sample-return missions takes place at facilities specially designed to preserve both the sample integrity...

"China aims to bring Mars samples to Earth 2 years before NASA, ESA mission". SpaceNews. Retrieved 2022-09-28. "NASA Selects 2 Missions to Study 'Lost Habitable'...

the European Space Agency (ESA) in order to conduct a mission involving returning a sample of Mars soil to Earth, which would likely cost at least $5 billion...

collected, documented, and cached samples for potential return to Earth by a future mission. The Mars 2020 mission with its Perseverance rover had similar...

carrying the Sample Return Capsule back to Earth, arriving in 2031. Phobos program Fobos-Grunt Mars sample-return mission "Phobos sample return mission enters...

far, no samples have been returned to Earth, the goal of a Mars sample-return mission, but the soil has been studied remotely with the use of Mars rovers...

one atmospheric Titan probe and one to land on Titan) and a Mars sample return mission. A permanent lunar outpost is discussed in "Outpost on the Moon"...

2023. David, Leonard (March 7, 2014). "Project 'Red Dragon': Mars Sample-Return Mission Could Launch in 2022 with SpaceX Capsule". Space.com. Archived...

interplanetary mission, aiming to prevent biological contamination of both the target celestial body and the Earth in the case of sample-return missions. Planetary...

proposed sample-return mission to the Mars moon Phobos by the European Space Agency (ESA), proposed to be launched in 2024. The Phootprint mission is a candidate...

Mission to Mars is a 2000 American science fiction adventure film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Jim Thomas, John Thomas, and Graham Yost, and...

missions with super-heavy uncrewed Martian spacecraft. First was Marsokhod, with a planned date of early 1973, and second was the Mars sample return mission...

Enceladus Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment Mars Geyser Hopper Mars sample-return mission Mars 2020 Northern Light Opportunity rover Perseverance...

of contamination would be from Mars during either a Mars sample-return mission or as a result of a crewed mission to Mars. The possibility of new human...

future Mars sample-return mission. The first part of the programme is a mission launched in 2016 that placed the Trace Gas Orbiter into Mars orbit and...