[troutman]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I'm not sure if it was mentioned, but is there a time line set up for when the next mission will return the samples collected to Earth?

Landing on Mars in hard enough, but I imagine landing and taking off again is a whole new ballpark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_s...return_mission

https://www.esa.int/Science_Explorat..._sample_return

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/ma...ple-return-msr


The multi-decade challenge of Mars Sample Return
https://spacenews.com/the-multi-deca...sample-return/

NASA’s Perseverance rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes for future retrieval.