With the roughly 20-day wide launch window for the Mars ... the robot that takes care of storing everything lives inside the forward section of the rover’s chassis. The Sample Handling Arm ...

Mars sample return tube Instead ... But there’s something of a catch. The robotic arm on Perseverance which handles the sample tubes lacks the necessary dexterity to actually load them into ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of ...

NASA's Curiosity rover made a compelling find on Mars ' irradiated surface.

An artist’s concept for multiple robots ... Mars Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech In an update on efforts to lower the cost and hasten the schedule for a challenging Mars Sample ...

Today's image comes to you all the way from Mars. One of the most powerful tools on NASA's Perseverance rover is the WATSON camera attached to the end of the rover's robotic arm. In the fine ...

Lockheed Martin has been part of all NASA Mars missions to date and it has been part of every single sample return mission to date. And, with the Mars Sample Return mission on the horizon ...

(CNN) --The Mars rover Spirit stretched its robotic arm over Martian soil Friday, and its microscopic imager is capturing even-higher-resolution images than the ones sent back after landing.

See how the Sample Transfer Arm for the Mars Sample Return mission will work in this animation. Credit: ESA/NASA ...

A Curiosity rover selfie from the Martian surface (created by images captured by a camera on its robotic arm and then stitched together).