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Exploring our solar system

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Perseverance River Sample Return Mission

Perseverance is doing an in situ exploration of the rocks on Mars, but that is in service to identifying and collecting the most scientifically compelling samples. And then there are a series of follow-on missions that will help get those samples back to Earth. So it's a complex series of missions, but each individual piece we know how to do, we've done before,. It's a matter of stringing them together.

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