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20 years after crashing in the Utah desert, NASA's Genesis mission is still teaching us about solar wind
Genesis data is now producing high impact science in cosmochemistry, solar physics, coronal mass ejections, and space ...
NASA defers decision on Mars Sample Return to the Trump administration
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...
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NASA Will Let Trump Decide How to Bring Mars Rocks to Earth
“We’re really excited about this,” said Nicola Fox, the associate administrator for NASA’s science mission directorate. “As always, my priority is to find a path forward for our sample ...
NASA punts Mars Sample Return decision to the next administration
In April, after an independent review found “near zero probability” of Mars Sample Return making its proposed 2028 launch ...
The Washington Post on MSN16d
NASA collected Mars rocks to haul to Earth. It still hasn’t decided how.
The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN13d
Scientists Drill 1.7 Miles Into Antarctic Ice, Revealing 1.2 Million Years of Climate History
A team of 16 scientists and support staffers spent four summers drilling through Antarctic ice until they finally reached bedrock. To accomplish their goal, they endured average temperatures of -25.6 ...
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NASA collected potential evidence of life on Mars. Now it’s pitching new plans to retrieve the cache
The agency’s Mars Sample Return Strategic Review team assessed ... associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. “One is to leverage technology that was previously used ...
NASA narrows down to 2 options its reworked Mars Sample Return mission
NASA announced Tuesday it had narrowed down to two options the reworked Mars Sample Return mission aiming for a cheaper and quicker completion than the version that had been killed last year.