NASA leaves Mars samples in limbo
The Perseverance rover has been driving around the surface of Mars, drilling and collecting core rock samples. The samples were supposed to be returned to Earth for analysis, but the return mission has not been scheduled or funded. NASA still hasn't decided how it will return the samples, if at all. So far, all we have are some high-resol…
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