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Can NASA's troubled Mars Sample Return mission be saved?

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U.S. and China are scripting strategies for bringing goodies back to Earth from Mars via their respective Mars Sample Return (MSR) endeavors.

NASA 's Perseverance rover is biting into and snatching primo chunks of Mars for eventual pick-up by a future MSR mission.

China 's Tianwen-3 mission could retrieve specimens for lab looks here on Earth around 2031 .

The Mars Pathfinder mission of 1997 landed in a region with no intact bedrock.

The approach taken jointly by NASA and ESA with MSR has been focused on returning the best possible samples.

Carefully selected samples of different type of materials are far better than one piece of a rock or one soil sample.

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