2024-04-17 17:05:00
On Mars for more than three years, the Perseverance rover has roamed the landscape on the edge of Jezero crater. It is currently on the edge of the Neretva Valley and periodically, when the scientific team managing the mission considers that it is on a compatible soil surface of great scientific interest, it takes a sample. It is a delicate process, which consists of storing precious grams of material in tubes which are then sealed and stored in a large central compartment… So that they can one day be brought back to Earth. NASA has been working for a long time on a (and in reality several) mission which will seek out these samples, collect them, send them into orbit, then bring them back to Earth so that they can be studied in terrestrial laboratories, with unparalleled capabilities. with the instruments of Mars rovers. The Mars Sample Return mission, in which the ESA is also participating, brings together all the components to bring back the precious harvest. Problem, for two years, the bill has continued to increase and the timetable is stretching… far, too far.
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