NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return Program
Jeffrey Gramling, Francois SpotoIAC 2022
Mission / Mars
NASA / ESA · 2020–now · also MSR, Sample Retrieval Lander, Earth Return Orbiter
Proposed NASA-ESA campaign to bring Perseverance's cached samples to Earth, with landers, a Mars ascent vehicle and an orbiter.
Official mission page3 papers naming Mars Sample Return
Jeffrey Gramling, Francois SpotoIAC 2022
Giuseppe Cataldo, Brian Childs, Jim Corliss, Brendan Feehan +12 moreIAC 2022
Omer Burak Iskender, Keck-Voon LingIAC 2026 2 cited