Mars Sample Return mission is underway with Perseverance – NASASpaceFlight.com – NASASpaceflight.com

The successful landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars on February 18 was not just the start of its surface mission but also the start of a multinational, decade-long effort to obtain pristine samples of Mars and return them to Earth for intensive study.
The Mars Sample Return project is the most complex robotic planetary mission ever created, involving four spacecraft in three missions that span the 11 years from 2020 through 2031 – when the ESA Earth Return Orbiter ejects the sample container…

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