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PIA05489: Rendezvous in Space
This artist's concept of the proposed NASA Mars Sample Return mission shows rendezvous of the orbiting sample container with the Earth return vehicle.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Mission:  Mars Sample Return 
 Spacecraft:  Mars Sample Return
 Product Size:  646 x 566 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA05489.tif (1.033 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA05489.jpg (63.38 kB)  

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This artist's concept of the proposed Mars Sample Return mission shows rendezvous of the orbiting sample container with the Earth return vehicle. This image is part of a series designed to describe the current groundbreaking Mars Sample Return mission concept (see figure 1 below for a composite of the series), with a tentative launch date of 2013.

figure 1 for PIA05486
Figure 1: series composite

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
2004-03-02