Open AccessScientists Plan a Home Away from Home for Mars Samples
Author(s) -
Damond Benningfield
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2021eo210621
Subject(s) - mars exploration program , plan (archaeology) , agency (philosophy) , space (punctuation) , space shuttle , aeronautics , core (optical fiber) , engineering , architectural engineering , astrobiology , business , computer science , aerospace engineering , telecommunications , geography , sociology , archaeology , operating system , physics , social science
The core tubes being collected by the Perseverance rover won’t arrive for years, but NASA and the European Space Agency are outlining needs for a facility to assess their safety and store and distribute them.