Illustrative concept for a set of future robots working together to ferry back samples from the surface of Mars collected by Mars Perseverance rover.
Illustrative concept for a set of future robots working together to ferry back samples from the surface of Mars collected by Mars Perseverance rover. According to the current concept, a Mars lander would be delivered in the vicinity of Jezero Crater, where Perseverance (left) will have collected and cached samples. The Sample Retrieval Lander (right) would carry a rocket (the Mars Ascent Vehicle), along with the Sample Fetch Rover (center) that is roughly the size of the Opportunity Mars rover. The fetch rover would gather the cached samples and carry them back to the lander for transfer to the ascent vehicle; additional samples could also be delivered directly by Perseverance. The ascent vehicle would then launch a special container holding the samples into Mars orbit. An orbiting spacecraft would rendezvous with and capture the orbiting samples before returning them to Earth.
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