Posted on Sep 4, 2021
Perseverance Rover collected First Mars Sample in tube 266
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Thank you for your comment, LTC John Shaw! - That will come when a mission is set up to retrieve the samples and return them to Earth... My educated guess will be within the 2-year cycle when Mars and Earth are in close proximity... probably in 2023..., but then this is a NASA planning venture and the time period for the mission will be selected by them... This will give us many of the results we are looking for...
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First of many. The getting a sample is fairly routine, the ability to analyze it on Mars and send results back is what's amazing to me.
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Some analysis will be made on Mars, but some samples will be returned to Earth for more detailed study, and that is where the mission will become a round trip scenario... Should be exciting to see happen if I live long enough...
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