A team of spacecraft will relay Martian rock samples to our planet.
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. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover watches a rocket carrying some of its collected samples launch from the Red Planet's surface in this still from a NASA/ESA animation.
Perseverance approaches the lander, transferring its precious and pristine samples to a sample containment system aboard the lander. These are then blasted into Mars orbit by a two-stage rocket, whose second stage meets up with ESA's MSR orbiter. The orbiter then fires its engines to head for home. The final moments of the video show the release of the sample-containing Earth Entry Vehicle just ahead of arrival atThe animation was created with contributions from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, Marshall Space Flight Center and ESA.
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