Samples from Mars are expected to return to Earth in 2033.
is part of a larger effort to return samples to Earth collected by the Mars rover Perseverance during its more than year-long mission.NASA is working with its counterparts at the European Space Agency to develop two landers for the mission, which will collect Perseverance’s work and return to Earth.
The spacecraft are not expected to launch until at least 2027 and 2028 and return with the samples five years later. The materials gathered in the hermetically sealed tubes are expected to give scientists a glimpse of the origins of the Red Planet and help determine where life exists beyond Earth.The agency says it’ll hold public meetings to explain why the U.S. Air Force’s Utah Test and Training Range is the best option to return the samples.Back in 2006,
brought materials from a comet back to Earth in a capsule that plunged into the atmosphere at 28,600 mph.Samples from Perseverance’s mission on Mars won’t reach Earth until at least 2033.
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