Scanning electron microscopy images showing representative regions of desiccated salt samples. Top row: Flash frozen; bottom row: slow frozen. (a) NaCl flash frozen, (d) NaCl slow frozen; (b) Na2SO4 flash

A scanning electron microscopy image of microbe samples taken from the vents. CREDIT Sharifah Altalhi A new study led by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST; Saudi Arabia)

An annotated version of the portrait captured by NASA’s Perseverance shows the location of the 10 sample tubes in the depot. The “Amalik” sample closest to the rover was about

Mass-radius diagram for TOI-283 b (red star) and known transiting planets with mass determinations with a precision better than 30 % (parameters taken from the TEPCat database; Southworth 2011). Planets

Lockheed Martin Recovery Specialists Levi Hanish and Michael Kaye remove the lid of the sample return canister. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowiz Martian rock and regolith samples are being collected and cached

The 2-dimensional dust temperature distributions without viscous heating are shown for 10 L⊙ (top) and 100 L⊙ (bottom); Model E (left), Model E+D (middle), and Model PPD (right) are presented.