SpaceNews

Perseverance to establish sample cache for later return to Earth

The revised Mars Sample Return strategy does away with a "fetch rover" and its lander, relying instead on the Perseverance rover and helicopters based on Ingenuity. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA and ...
SpaceNews

Perseverance prepares to deposit Mars sample cache

The revised Mars Sample Return strategy does away with a "fetch rover" and its lander, relying instead on the Perseverance rover and helicopters based on Ingenuity. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA’s ...
SpaceRef

NASA MEPAG: Analysis of arguments for and against removing the sample cache hardware from MSL

1) Any cache on Mars will be a positive step towards sample return and the cache box should be retained unless it is demonstrated that the MSL objectives will be compromised; and 2) The value of this ...
Gizmodo

Perseverance Is About to Drop Its First Sample Cache, NASA Says

A future mission will pick up these rock cores and bring them to Earth, where scientists will search them for signs of ancient life. Reading time 2 minutes For nearly two years (has it been that long ...
Aviation Week

NASA advances plans to cache Mars samples on MSL for later return

The European Space Agency (ESA) may join NASA in mounting a low-cost sample cache on its next rover mission to Mars, as discussions advance on a joint U.S.-European Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission as ...
Digital Trends

The Perseverance rover is building a sample cache on Mars

There are currently a number of rovers, landers, and orbiters exploring Mars, gathering more information than ever before about the planet’s environment and its history. But to understand more about ...