With the help of two helicopters, a mini rocket and a new Mars lander, NASA and the European Space Agency are bringing the first samples from another planet back to Earth. CNET’s Claire Reilly breaks down how the ambitious program will work.
0:00 Mars Sample Return Mission
0:49 Perseverance Lands
1:21 Ingenuity Flies
2:01 Sample Caching System
2:27 One Sample, Three Robots
3:17 Sample Retrieval Lander
4:14 Using Ingenuity
4:40 The Sample Transfer Arm
4:56 Launching A Rocket From Mars
5:13 Earth Return Orbiter
5:36 Testing The Samples On Earth
6:36 Searching For Life On Mars
7:22 Prepping For Human Missions To Mars
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Utku Erkan
August 16, 2022 at 1:42 pm
Nice video, thanks for your upload. All the best to ESA/NASA upcoming sample return mission. :o)
RH
August 16, 2022 at 2:12 pm
I hope they bring me back some sandkings!
Danner Banks
August 16, 2022 at 3:24 pm
“Perseverance has kind of been acting like your uncle at Costco – hoovering around and picking up samples” LOL
Bob Leece
August 16, 2022 at 3:49 pm
This is about as exciting as bringing back moon rocks. Trust me the novelty wears off after a while. What would really be exciting is a human colony on Mars.
Jameel
August 16, 2022 at 4:16 pm
Lmfao @ “like your uncle at Costco, wandering around hovering up samples”. Brilliant.
Jameel
August 16, 2022 at 4:21 pm
They already made that movie. It’s called *LIFE* .
ngoalpo
August 16, 2022 at 4:36 pm
Wait… NASA doesn’t have next delivery? 🤣🤣
Lubz M.
August 16, 2022 at 4:41 pm
You’re telling me there may be a way for me to finally jar a fart without it losing its air quality?
Lex Nel
August 16, 2022 at 5:11 pm
Or, hear me out on this, we could spend our time and energy preserving the one planet we’re already kinda familiar with. Maybe treat it better so we’ll have it longer?
Lex Nel
August 16, 2022 at 9:36 pm
@SCOTT ROPER I’m onboard.
Afsal Moosa
August 16, 2022 at 5:36 pm
2033????.does humans achive more by visiting mars even before that????
Khaled Hussain
August 16, 2022 at 5:56 pm
We have all seen the horror movie before 🙂
InteractiveProducer
August 16, 2022 at 5:57 pm
They need to examine the “goods” on the ISS…you don’t know what you’re bringing back to the earth’s environment. Maybe there’s an issue when the rocket tries to enter the earth’s atmosphere and its contents are spilled into the earth’s environment, and if there is an issue the best case scenario would be for it all to get burned up in the atmosphere. Just a little caution. I’ve seen my share of sci-fi movies.
Max Jacoby
August 16, 2022 at 6:57 pm
4:06 – no need for a “choppa” because in 2028 Elon himself can deliver samples to a launchpad.
Tim Behrens
August 16, 2022 at 11:52 pm
Not before a Tesla can drive coast to coast fully autonomously.
Adrian Billy
August 16, 2022 at 7:10 pm
That sample is full of virus. Stay in that place, is an Alien DNA could take the world.
Beyonder
August 16, 2022 at 7:19 pm
Rovers are useless. They all been the same and done same thing. This rover actually plans to retrieve mars rock so its not that bad but we need to stop spending $$$ on rovers that have reached their limits
Charley Howard
August 16, 2022 at 7:23 pm
CNET’s Claire Reilly looks to have a full bra …
Karl Nielsen
August 16, 2022 at 8:00 pm
Over eleven years to get a few small samples back?!?!?! I was thinking would we get people to Mars and back with significant samples before then.
Bob
August 16, 2022 at 8:34 pm
thought that was a flying THC vape cart in the thumbnail…maybe I should cut back.
Bubbernino
August 16, 2022 at 9:02 pm
Won’t Elon have a Tesla-Plant and 2 ex-wives on Mars by the time this mission is complete? 😅
IBD
August 16, 2022 at 9:37 pm
fake cgi lies as always, 2022 we know space is fake, Actornauts Hollywood clowns.
Thunder Bee
August 16, 2022 at 10:07 pm
Uncle at Costco!! 😂
Duncan Hunter
August 16, 2022 at 10:21 pm
has no one ever watched a sci-fi movie…. this won’t end well and neither will we………..
inverse_of_zero
August 16, 2022 at 11:12 pm
Mate, you’re a fellow Aussie, saying SHRIMP is just so unnatural! 😭
Jose Arreguin
August 16, 2022 at 11:43 pm
Do you want Zombies? Because this is how you get Zombies
Sadim Hall
August 17, 2022 at 12:34 am
yaasssss SIS that shirt is everything lol
G. Dave3
August 17, 2022 at 1:29 am
Bringing Rocks/Air from Mars to a world with a collapsing Biosphere, are the Rocks worth destroying Earth! Wow, how crazy is that! ffs! ✊🏽🌻🌎
Ted Unguent
August 17, 2022 at 4:34 am
“Destroying Earth.” LOL We don’t have the capacity to “destroy” Earth. Humans will be long gone but the Earth will survive and new species will evolve. It always has and it always will until the Sun expands into a Red Giant and consumes all of the inner (rocky) planets.
Mark McArthy
August 17, 2022 at 1:59 am
Clean up the return rock samples? How many space rocks hit Earth routinely?
Andy Klein
August 17, 2022 at 2:38 am
This is way cool but it’s taking way too long. 11 years without delays is the earliest we’ll have samples? I hoped we’d have a person on Mars by then. I think at age 56 that I’ll be dead before we land someone on Mars. I’m totally bummed.
Tasman Jones
August 17, 2022 at 2:46 am
Your jokes are lame and dont enhance the content. Otherwise, good coverage.
CK Gaming Channel
August 17, 2022 at 5:48 am
Hee hee.
johndoe
August 17, 2022 at 3:38 am
Sounds like a scary movie waiting to happen
Skate to Explore Videos
August 17, 2022 at 4:00 am
2028? I thought it was right now or next year.
Down Side
August 17, 2022 at 5:33 am
I can’t bring dirt from my country to another due too environmental reasons and here they’re bringing samples from another planet
arnet vlogs
August 17, 2022 at 6:15 am
Percy launched when I was 18 and we won’t get the samples back until I’m 32 jesus
Rick Pontificates
August 17, 2022 at 7:57 am
Anyone who saw The Andromeda Strain will be sufficiently scared by this news
Oren
August 17, 2022 at 11:22 am
So bring back gasses from another planet. Wise, huh. Just because one can doesn’t grant that one should.
Vaux Glandzer
August 17, 2022 at 11:43 am
The cartoon movie called “Marvin the Martian” by Looney Tunes (Warner Brothers), a cool villain character..
Robot Polisher
August 17, 2022 at 1:45 pm
Amazing how many “adults” still believe in Santa Claus
BENJAMIN OFORI
August 17, 2022 at 2:02 pm
no one has that time to 2033 that’s a lazy approach by NASA ….by then the mars colony wud have started and Elun would be the president of mars and his vice Vladimir Putin …i think NASA shud be given to elun to manage, the guys there are not really up to the task
CARP
August 17, 2022 at 3:40 pm
It is *NOT* “bringing Martian rocks and air back to Earth.” It is planned to do so *in the future* , but it is not happening right now.
Misleading title! Is it too hard to say “will be bringing” or “is planning to bring” rather than “is bringing”? Or is the disingenuous click-bait too tempting to miss?
Ian Hobbs
August 17, 2022 at 5:41 pm
Bringing Martian rock back then gives the opportunity to compare them with Martian rock samples already found on earth and give more credence to the massive collision Mars appears to have experienced in the distant past.
Brad Zook
August 17, 2022 at 6:18 pm
The entire foundational presupposition of the Perseverance mission is that inanimate objects can burst into life thru natural causes. There is zero scientific evidence for this notion.
George W Bush Center for Intelligence
August 17, 2022 at 6:20 pm
A bag of air from a Kayne west concert goes for 50000$
Billy SBC
August 17, 2022 at 6:50 pm
Need to send back samples of Martian ice.
Branden Vondrak
August 17, 2022 at 10:46 pm
Do you think that they really care about finding evidence of life? Personally, I think they really care about finding evidence of natural resources for energy.
Pop Culture Curator
August 18, 2022 at 4:17 am
If you really think this is the limit of our tech, seek help. You have been watching too much T.V.
Super Med
August 18, 2022 at 9:09 am
Why do we want to go to Mars.What benefit will it bring to humanity.A planet with no water or Oxygen.
Let’s make our planet better.There are more important issues to deal with here on Earth.
Hermosa_rosa_blanca
August 18, 2022 at 3:24 pm
‘Roaming around like your uncle at Costco quietly collecting samples.’ Lol.
Leander Herman
August 18, 2022 at 5:18 pm
I would volunteer going to Mars but i feel i would become a bit depressed being on a planet without a beach etc.
Just saying it seems rather depressing