A new video shows how a team of NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft plan to relay Martian rock samples to Earth.
Key moments of the unprecedented and highly complex Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission are detailed in a 106-second NASA/ESA video(opens in new tab), which starts off with a spacecraft encased in an aeroshell speeding toward Mars.
NASA’s Perseverance rover — which has been busy collecting samples since touching down on the Red Planet in February 2021— gives off a somewhat anthropomorphized feel as it watches NASA’s MSR lander descend and land nearby.
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