How NASA Will Bring First Mars Samples Back to Earth



With the help of two helicopters, a mini rocket and a new Mars lander, NASA and the European Space Agency are bringing the first samples from another planet back to Earth. CNET’s Claire Reilly breaks down how the ambitious program will work.

0:00 Mars Sample Return Mission
0:49 Perseverance Lands
1:21 Ingenuity Flies
2:01 Sample Caching System
2:27 One Sample, Three Robots
3:17 Sample Retrieval Lander
4:14 Using Ingenuity
4:40 The Sample Transfer Arm
4:56 Launching A Rocket From Mars
5:13 Earth Return Orbiter
5:36 Testing The Samples On Earth
6:36 Searching For Life On Mars
7:22 Prepping For Human Missions To Mars

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47 thoughts on “How NASA Will Bring First Mars Samples Back to Earth”

  1. This is way cool but it’s taking way too long. 11 years without delays is the earliest we’ll have samples? I hoped we’d have a person on Mars by then. I think at age 56 that I’ll be dead before we land someone on Mars. I’m totally bummed.

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  2. no one has that time to 2033 that's a lazy approach by NASA ….by then the mars colony wud have started and Elun would be the president of mars and his vice Vladimir Putin …i think NASA shud be given to elun to manage, the guys there are not really up to the task

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  3. It is NOT "bringing Martian rocks and air back to Earth." It is planned to do so in the future , but it is not happening right now.
    Misleading title! Is it too hard to say "will be bringing" or "is planning to bring" rather than "is bringing"? Or is the disingenuous click-bait too tempting to miss?

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  4. Bringing Martian rock back then gives the opportunity to compare them with Martian rock samples already found on earth and give more credence to the massive collision Mars appears to have experienced in the distant past.

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  5. The entire foundational presupposition of the Perseverance mission is that inanimate objects can burst into life thru natural causes. There is zero scientific evidence for this notion.

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  6. Why do we want to go to Mars.What benefit will it bring to humanity.A planet with no water or Oxygen.
    Let’s make our planet better.There are more important issues to deal with here on Earth.

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  8. I'm willing to bet that they will change course from landing the samples to Earth via impact to SpaceX Starship or Dragon doing an automated retrieval from space and safely landing it on Earth. I think those samples arre way too valuable to risk an impact landing.

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