The space agency seeks to ensure the highly complex mission isn’t the latest to suffer delays, cancellations, or budgetary overruns.
The agency also intends to send two more helicopters to Mars to aid in sample recovery, now that theOnce the samples have been launched into Mars orbit, another spacecraft will recover them and head back to Earth.
Orlando Figueroa, the former deputy center director for science and technology at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, will head up the review board. The board is expected to release a report of its findings—including the likelihood of mission success and scientific and technical aspects of the program—in late August.Perseverance landed on Mars in February 202
1 and since then has been collecting rock samples on the western rim of Jezero Crater, which once was a river delta flowing into a lake. NASA scientists believe that if microbial life once existed on Mars, it will have been in a place like Jezero.
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