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A NASA rover on Mars has been collecting samples of rock and sealing them into metal tubes. NASA wants to launch a robotic mission that would pick up these samples and would return them to Earth. That ...

NASA hedges its bets on costly Mars rock mission By Nell Greenfieldboyce Published January 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM PST ...

A NASA rover on Mars has been collecting samples of rock and sealing them into metal tubes. NASA wants to launch a robotic mission that would pick up these samples and would return them to Earth.