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space.com:
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Experts push back against cancellation of NASA's Mars sample return project
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""There are incredibly tantalizing samples in the Perseverance rover's cache that could revolutionize our understanding of life in the solar system.""

https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/experts-push-back-against-cancellation-of-nasas-mars-sample-return-project

12.1.2026

#Mars #MarsSampleReturn #MEPAG #MSR #NASA #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #SpaceFlight #USA

It is already two and a half months since NASA would usually have announced the proposal calls for programs that Congress has ordered it to conduct.

We do not appear to yet have a date when that will happen.

Yet again:

Managers do not have to follow illegal executive orders.

QT Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social‬
2025 April 30

#MEPAG - Looking to release ROSES 25 , ASAP. Want to make sure if there is any new announcements that everyone is up to speed, ...
https://bsky.app/profile/genejm1017.bsky.social/post/3lo2b6lz7jk22

in the direction of Depot #1, to scout the area where some ripples and possible rocks exist, so that the landing area for the #MSR is surveyed by air and known in detail.

• My take for the flight path shown on the map is along a possible route for #Perseverance to explore the rest of the areas which were shown at the recent #MEPAG 39 meeting by Ken Farley, the #Mars2020 Project Scientist: https://fosstodon.org/@65dBnoise/108854793577821839

2/2
#NASA #Ingenuity #solarocks #space

The success of #Ingenuity has increased the possibility to have more #MarsHelicopters sooner than later.

Here are some slides from the Lightning presentations:

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/mepag/meetings/mepag-39/slides/Lightning.pdf

#MEPAG #NASA #Space #Mars