and air samples on the Martian surface for more than a year—and now, its hard work is ready to pay off. The agency has announced that it has chosen the first cache of samples to be sent back to ...

It took less than six weeks for NASA's Perseverance rover to create the first sample depot ... Watch this: Mars Sample Return Mission Will Bring Rocks and Air to Earth 08:11 The rock samples ...

and one is filled with Martian air. This "atmospheric sample" is the result of Perseverance's first-ever sampling try, which failed due to the crumbliness of the target rock.

Now, the rover team is finally selecting a spot to drop off its first cache of samples ... over 8 miles on Mars and collected 14 samples of rock and air. “NASA and ESA have reviewed the proposed ...

The air samples could also reveal how much water vapor ... the intrepid Ingenuity helicopter flew in Mars’ skies, the first craft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another planet.

On Tuesday, he got his first look at dust ... chamber shaped like an air filter on the end of the robot arm. This device is called the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, or TAGSAM.

After an extremely long journey from asteroid Bennu and a complicated extraction from its canister, NASA is getting exciting ...