The Perseverance robot collected materials from Mars, which will be brought to Earth in 2030.
Launch between NASA and SpaceX. Photo: Reuters.
The NASA will bring to Tierra During the 2030s Soil samples from Mars Collected by Robot persistence 8,000 and 11,000 million dollars in the project, among several tasks. however, The budgetary challenges it faces may complicate this.
As announced by the Administrator of the US Space Research Center, Bill NelsonA plan is maintained to collect samples, or some of them, that the robot has begun to take since its arrival at the Red Planet in 2021. However, the NASA administrator emphasized the expectation of future limitations in terms of funding, based on the current mission design, consistent with the fiscal year 2025 budget. Mars samples won't be able to return to Earth until 2040, a “far-out” date.
In this sense, he indicated that in the 2030s they will make changes to get them, “to land, collect samples safely and launch a rocket with samples from another planet (which has not been done yet). Safely transporting samples more than 33 million miles to Earth is no easy task. Nelson explained.
The announced date and value represent an adjustment after revamping the mission with “reduced complexity, improved resilience, risk level, greater accountability and coordination,” according to a NASA statement. This was in response to an independent report commissioned by the space agency and published in September 2023, which assessed that the mission design was based on a “Unrealistic Budgeting and Programming.”
A NASA spacecraft has completed its mission to Mars. Photo: EFE.
The Mars Sample Return (MSR) “This will be one of the most complex missions NASA has ever undertaken,” Nelson said in a teleconference on Monday.
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He Persistence According to scientists, soil samples were taken in Jezero Crater, north of the Martian equator, and rivers were found crossing the crater wall, which could be a lake.
The mission to bring back samples from Mars involves sending other robots and helicopters. IntelligenceA NASA spacecraft will complete its last mission to Mars in January 2024.
