SpaceRef - Exploration and Missions - Robotic Missions - Mars

SpaceRef - Exploration and Missions - Robotic Missions - Mars - Mars Sample Return

Mars Sample Return 2003 and 2005 - Provides descriptions of current plans for Mars sample return missions - National Space Science Data Center - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Mars Sample Return Workshop - This workshop was held from 25-27 March 1996 to reexamine the science issues that will determine how an optimum sample return mission would be carried out in 2005 - NASA Ames Research Center.

Mars Sample Return: Issues and Recommendations - Report issued on 25 March 1997 by the National Research Council's Commission on Physical Sciences Mathematics and Applications (CPSMA).

NASA JPL Mars Sample Return Homepage - In the fall of 2008, NASA, in cooperation with the French Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency plan to return a capsule to Earth containing samples of surface material, rocks and atmospheric gases from Mars. This page describes the 2003 and 2005 Mars Sample Return Missions being planned by NASA, CNES, and ASI.

Optimization of an '05 sample return mission for Mars exopaleontology - A discussion of the factors that need to be considered in designing a sample return mission, NASA Johnson Space Center