While China claims its space agency will return Mars samples 2 years before NASA.
NASA's Mars Sample Return Mission aims to bring back 30 samples of Martian soil, rock, and atmospheric gas, collected by its Perseverance rover, at some point in the 2030s.to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with some of the public's most burning questions, and Mars Sample Return scientists Michael Meyer and Lindsay Hays responded.
The Inquirer's readers asked some interesting questions, including whether NASA has assigned a probability for the likelihood we will find signs of life on Mars. "The fact that Mars meteorites are landing on Earth all the time does suggest that we have little to worry about," they continued."However, we don't know for sure and so will take all precautions and keep Mars material contained until we show that they are safe."
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