{"id":233340,"date":"2026-01-11T23:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/233340\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T23:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:18:06","slug":"nasa-wont-bring-back-mars-sample","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/233340\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA won\u2019t bring back Mars sample"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NASA canceled its plan to bring samples of rock from Mars back to Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Perseverance rover has been traversing the surface of the Red Planet since 2021, gathering and analyzing samples, but it is just the first of two stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A later, as-yet unscheduled mission was intended to return the sealed specimens to Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But that is a much more complex operation than the outward journey and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/astronomy\/mars\/winning-the-red-planet-race-returning-mars-samples-before-china-should-be-a-top-us-priority-experts-say\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:was expected to cost $11 billion by its eventual completion around 2040;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">was expected to cost $11 billion by its eventual completion around 2040<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The White House has long been skeptical, and Congress\u2019 new spending bill \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/nasa-s-mars-sample-return-mission-dead\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:effectively signals the end;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">effectively signals the end<\/a>\u201d of the plan, Science reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In 2024, Perseverance discovered rocks that some scientists said showed \u201cleopard spots\u201d similar to those left by microbes on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/tom-chivers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tom Chivers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tom Chivers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA canceled its plan to bring samples of rock from Mars back to Earth. The Perseverance rover has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,46,3442,4750,141,24478,67860],"class_list":{"0":"post-233340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-nasa","11":"tag-perseverance-rover","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-the-red-planet","14":"tag-the-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}