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Explore the Mars Sample Return campaign’s curated collection of images and videos.

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From Martian samples to mission engineers testing spacecraft components that would return them, scroll through the Mars Sample Return images.

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This photomontage shows each of the sample tubes shortly after they were deposited onto the surface by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, as viewed by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) camera on the end of the rover’s 7-foot-long (2-meter-long) robotic arm.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

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Meet the Mars rocks samples, watch the mission concept, and behind the scenes testing, view the library of curated videos about Mars Sample Return campaign.

^{This short animation features key moments of the Mars Sample Return campaign: from landing on Mars and securing the sample tubes to launching them off the surface and ferrying them back to Earth.

Animation is contributed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the European Space Agency, Goddard Space Flight Center, and Marshall Space Flight Center.}

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