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Asd 3, How to Bring Mars Sample Tubes Safely to Earth (Mars News Report)

How to Bring Mars Sample Tubes Safely to Earth (Mars News Report)

- The Perseverance Rover

is filling up tubes just like this

with rocky material from Mars.

And it's my job to protect them.

What kind of testing are we doing now

to make sure that they survive their journey back to earth?

Let's take a look.

(inspiring music)

- We are close to the base of a nearly 90 foot drop tower

here at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Places like this are designed

to help test out NASA's most ambitious campaign to date,

Mars Sample Return.

I'm Raquel Villanueva here with Aaron Yazzie.

He's in charge of keeping the sample tube safe

on their journey home.

So Aaron, what's the plan for Mars Sample Return?

- [Aaron] Mars Sample Return is the next leg,

in us being able to bring back

rocky samples from Mars to Earth

so that we can study them here

and look for signs of ancient life.

- [Raquel] What kind of testing is being done here at JPL

to prepare the sample tubes for their journey back to earth?

- [Aaron] The sample tubes have already gone through

a lot of testing to date,

but we're gonna continue testing

to make sure that they can survive

every leg of this mission.

Some of them involved mimicking Mars' environment.

Practice robotic handling of the tubes,

making sure that they can survive each of those steps.

The launch environment, the landing environment.

- [Raquel] Speaking of final descent back to earth

that's what the engineers are working on behind us.

Can you tell us a little bit more about those tests?

- The tower behind me

is actually able to mimic the event

from when the canister holding the sample tubes

will land back on earth.

One of the designs that we're currently testing out

is what kind of crushable material

we might want to use inside of that assembly.

So this right here

is actually a piece of titanium crushable

that we're gonna use with this mass simulator

to see how best to cradle and protect these tubes

when they land back on earth.

- What is being done to ensure

that this is a successful campaign?

- We are currently partnering with agencies

across the US and around the world,

the most predominant one being the European Space Agency.

We're actually working on building a hundred more test tubes

that we can distribute to all these teams,

so they can do all their testing and ensure

that everything will work like they designed it to.

- What are you most excited about

when it comes to Mars Sample Return?

- I am really excited about all the information

that these little rock samples hold inside them,

and especially the exciting probability

that we could find ancient life.

For me personally,

I come from an area in the US that looks like Mars.

The Navajo Nation is a rocky desert landscape

and it really reminds me how similar rocky planets

in our solar system can be.

- It's a very cool perspective to bring with you.

Thank you for your time, Aaron.

- Thank you.

- And NASA is sending your name to Mars.

So if you'd like to get a boarding pass

like Aaron has right here,

please follow the link below.

And to keep up with the latest updates

follow @nasajpl and @nasamars.

Or take a deeper dive

on the mission websites at mars.nasa.gov

(inspiring music intensifies then fades)


How to Bring Mars Sample Tubes Safely to Earth (Mars News Report) Wie man Mars-Probenröhrchen sicher zur Erde bringt (Mars News Report)

- The Perseverance Rover

is filling up tubes just like this

with rocky material from Mars.

And it's my job to protect them.

What kind of testing are we doing now

to make sure that they survive their journey back to earth?

Let's take a look.

(inspiring music)

- We are close to the base of a nearly 90 foot drop tower

here at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Places like this are designed

to help test out NASA's most ambitious campaign to date,

Mars Sample Return.

I'm Raquel Villanueva here with Aaron Yazzie.

He's in charge of keeping the sample tube safe

on their journey home.

So Aaron, what's the plan for Mars Sample Return?

- [Aaron] Mars Sample Return is the next leg,

in us being able to bring back

rocky samples from Mars to Earth

so that we can study them here

and look for signs of ancient life.

- [Raquel] What kind of testing is being done here at JPL

to prepare the sample tubes for their journey back to earth?

- [Aaron] The sample tubes have already gone through

a lot of testing to date,

but we're gonna continue testing

to make sure that they can survive

every leg of this mission.

Some of them involved mimicking Mars' environment.

Practice robotic handling of the tubes,

making sure that they can survive each of those steps.

The launch environment, the landing environment.

- [Raquel] Speaking of final descent back to earth

that's what the engineers are working on behind us.

Can you tell us a little bit more about those tests?

- The tower behind me

is actually able to mimic the event

from when the canister holding the sample tubes

will land back on earth.

One of the designs that we're currently testing out

is what kind of crushable material

we might want to use inside of that assembly.

So this right here

is actually a piece of titanium crushable

that we're gonna use with this mass simulator

to see how best to cradle and protect these tubes

when they land back on earth.

- What is being done to ensure

that this is a successful campaign?

- We are currently partnering with agencies

across the US and around the world,

the most predominant one being the European Space Agency.

We're actually working on building a hundred more test tubes

that we can distribute to all these teams,

so they can do all their testing and ensure

that everything will work like they designed it to.

- What are you most excited about

when it comes to Mars Sample Return?

- I am really excited about all the information

that these little rock samples hold inside them,

and especially the exciting probability

that we could find ancient life.

For me personally,

I come from an area in the US that looks like Mars.

The Navajo Nation is a rocky desert landscape

and it really reminds me how similar rocky planets

in our solar system can be.

- It's a very cool perspective to bring with you.

Thank you for your time, Aaron.

- Thank you.

- And NASA is sending your name to Mars.

So if you'd like to get a boarding pass

like Aaron has right here,

please follow the link below.

And to keep up with the latest updates

follow @nasajpl and @nasamars.

Or take a deeper dive

on the mission websites at mars.nasa.gov

(inspiring music intensifies then fades)