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NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

456 points · 391 comments · Muhammad523

  1. Imnimo · · focus · HN ↗
    I never really understood why you'd have Perseverance drill the cores and then just leave them on the ground for an underdefined future mission to retrieve.
    1. kphorn · · focus · HN ↗
      Agree, the decision to drop samples on the ground doesn’t make sense to me. Store them in the rover. Much easier to find them all in one spot later.
      1. NetMageSCW · · focus · HN ↗
        They only dropped ten out of 43 - the rest are stored on-board, including duplicates of the ten.
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