Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. See how the Sample Transfer Arm for the Mars Sample Return mission will work in this animation. Credit: ESA/NASA Need a plan to ...

MGISTP-3000 from MGI is considered a benchtop automated sample transfer processing system. It combines tube decapping, barcode identification, tube recapping, automated liquid transfer, and negative ...

The robotic arm is integral to the Mars Sample Return Program, a joint venture between NASA and ESA that's seeking to return Martian samples to Earth in 2033. Reading time 2 minutes The Mars Sample ...

The years-long delay of the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission leaves astrobiologists —- indeed most of humanity —- longing for some sort of next level closure on whether Mars ever had ...

Shuang Bai, a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne and research associate with the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME), checks the sealing of an inert gas sample transfer ...