Every space probe is a story of patience, speed, and gravity’s help! 🔔Follow: @inspiredstarlab for more! Here’s how long some of humanity’s most iconic missions took to reach their targets: 🔹 Perseverance Rover (Mars, 2021) – ~7 months 🔹 Mariner 10 (Venus & Mercury, 1974) – ~5 months to Venus, ~5 months more to Mercury flyby 🔹 BepiColombo (Mercury, launched 2018) – Still en route, will arrive in 2025 after ~7 years and multiple flybys 🔹 Parker Solar Probe (2018) – Reached the Sun’s outer co

In #TheMartian movie, humans collect samples from the Red Planet. Learn how we’re preparing our Mars 2020 rover to do the same, and how this progresses our #JourneyToMars: https://youtu.be/fQTOx7fpsCM | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASA is smoothing out the final details of its future program to bring back treasured martian samples, also known as the Mars Sample Return Program, and its new helicopters might make future missions much simpler. Previously, the plan included several steps to introduce a Sample Fetch Rover into missions, which is now replaced by two (really cool and kind of cute) recovery helicopters within the main Sample Retrieval Lander. The new changes will lead scientists to begin building the first protot