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Thomas Zurbuchen
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Plans to deploy the cache as soon as next month have been approved. Never before have samples from another planet been collected and placed for return to Earth. When that first tube is positioned on the surface it will be a historic moment in space exploration.
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We're teaming up with @ESA to pick up samples from the surface of Mars and bring them back home—for the first time in history. Here are the latest updates on our Mars Sample Return campaign: go.nasa.gov/3FsGJTo
Alt text: A view of the Perseverance Mars rover's rear deck, with numerous tubes and dusty-white paneling, on the barren and rust-red surface of Mars. At the top right of the image is an annotation that reads "Sample Tube Drop-off Location" with a vertical bar, indicating the location of the sample depot. It is many meters in the distance. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
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