Cybertrucks for Mars Sample Collection

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Cybertrucks on Mars? Space advocates and NASA consider ideas for sample return

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Robotically controlled Cybertrucks could be part of a Mars exploration system that also includes SpaceX’s Starship super-rocket as well as all-terrain vehicles and humanoid robots built by Tesla .

A pressurized version of the vehicle might be just the thing for gathering up samples of Martian rock and soil for return to Earth .

In April , NASA acknowledged that its previous plan for returning the samples was unworkable.

Two studies are looking into adapting Blue Origin’s Blue Ring orbital transfer vehicle for Mars -bound payloads and for communication relay services.

NASA promises to release summaries of the study later this year .

Mars Society is pressing to accelerate the progress toward crewed missions to Mars .

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