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NASA Ready to Bring Pieces of Mars Back to Earth – autoevolution
As you’re reading this, an Earth starship carrying the Perseverance rover is hurdling towards the Red Planet. It should get there in February 2021, and embark on…
The idea behind this plan is pretty simple: Perseverance is to pick pieces of the neighboring planet (at least 20 samples), store them in special containers and leave them “in a well-identified place, or more than one spot, on the surface of Mars,” from where a subsequent mission could pick them up.Called Sample Return, the mission is the joint work of NASA and its European counterpart, ESA. It should be up and running by the end of the decade, with the landing on Mars of the platform from which…
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