13 November 2019
Curiosity uncovers oxygen mystery on Mars
... to perform while it ambles around the martian surface is to inhale the air around Gale Crater with its Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument and analyse what its made of. After a three year study – Mars years...
09 August 2021
Problem for Perseverance's first Mars sampling attempt
... the root cause for the empty tube.” Returning samples from Mars has been a goal of planetary exploration...in a Martian rock in preparation for the rover's first attempt to collect a sample. It was taken by one of the rover's hazard cameras in what the...
13 December 2019
NASA selects Nightingale site for asteroid sample collection
...’s microgravity environment. In any situation where a follow-on attempt at Nightingale is not possible, the team will try to collect a sample from site Osprey instead. "Bennu has challenged OSIRIS-REx with extraordinarily rugged terrain," said Rich...
16 December 2020
Hayabusa2 delivers first-ever gas sample from an asteroid
... in vacuum in its present condition,” say JAXA in a statement. “From here, we will move to chamber CC3-3, remove the samples from chamber A in a nitrogen environment, and open chambers B and C.” A detailed analysis of both grains and gas is expected...
08 September 2021
Success! Perseverance collects its first Mars rock sample
...the remains of that life itself. “Getting the first sample under our belt is a huge milestone,” said Perseverance ...evolution of Mars. But however geologically intriguing the contents of sample tube 266 will be, they won’t tell the complete story ...
06 December 2020
Hayabusa2 capsule containing asteroid samples lands on Earth
..., the capsule was carried by hand into a so-called "quick look facility" to be cleaned and dismantled so the interior sample container can be exposed, said the deputy director general of JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Masaki...
