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NASA defers decision on Mars Sample Return to the Trump administration

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NASA 's Perseverance rover has collected rock samples from an unexplored patch of land on Mars .

The agency has presented two options for retrieving and returning the samples gathered by the rover.

One alternative involves a conventional architecture reminiscent of past NASA Mars missions.

The other option would be to outsource the lander to the space industry.

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84

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formal

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English

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58

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