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Australian company IMDEX recently showcased its robotic BLASTDOG technology to NASA. By expanding into the space sector, non-space suppliers can become more financially resilient and help diversify the Australian economy. Credit: AROSE

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NASA’s Perseverance rover deposited the first of several samples onto the Martian surface on Dec. 21, 2022, the 653rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission

SITE INVESTIGATION

NASA reveals details of Mars Sample Receiving Project office

NASA names the site for the analysis of samples to be returned from Mars rover mission

24 January 2023

A composition of multiple images shows NASA’s Perseverance rover putting its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called “Skinner Ridge” in Mars’ Jezero Crater

SITE INVESTIGATION

NASA's Perseverance rover investigates Mars terrain

Investigation work continues for NASA's Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars

21 September 2022

An illustration of Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander with a depiction of NASA’s Polar Resources Ice-Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) attached to the spacecraft on the surface of the Moon

SITE INVESTIGATION

NASA announces landing site location for lunar drill

Location announced by NASA for site of future lunar ice drilling programme

23 November 2021

Perseverance’s first cored-rock sample of Mars rock is seen inside its titanium container tube in this image taken by the rover’s sampling and caching system camera

CORE SAMPLING

NASA's Perseverance rover collects first Mars rock sample

First core sample drilled and collected from by Jezero Crater on Mars by NASA rover

08 September 2021

An image taken by one the hazard cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance showing the hole drilled in what the rover’s science team calls a “paver rock” in preparation for the mission’s first attempt to collect a sample from Mars

CORE SAMPLING

NASA's Perseverance team assessing first Mars sampling attempt

Initial core drilling attempt by Perseverance rover fails to deliver a sample from Mars' surface

09 August 2021

A light-coloured paver stone, like the ones seen in this mosaic image, will be the likely target for first sampling by the Perseverance rover

CORE SAMPLING

NASA Perseverance Mars rover to acquire first sample

NASA's Mars rover preparing to collect samples during its first core drilling project

30 July 2021

To penetrate through Mars’ 20m of regolith and extract water from the planet’s ice deposits, HoneyBee Robotics has developed the Red Water system

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Automated mining key to Mars colonisation

Scientist suggests automated mining will be crucial to the potential colonisation on Mars

10 March 2021

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