it’s not clear why there also wasn’t the same amount of material near Mars so that it might grow to be the same size, Matthew Clement, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University’s ...
“We’ve started peopling the solar system.” Holcomb says that just like scientists use ancient artifacts to track humanity’s “movement, evolution, and history on Earth,” future researchers will be able ...
NASA is therefore eager to get the Mars material — about 30 cigar-sized, sealed tubes containing rock cores and sediment — home, and then on to laboratories around the world. But doing so has ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA is considering two ways to get its precious Mars samples ...