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China's space agency could be the first to bring samples from Mars to Earth, in a plan that would return Martian rocks and sediment in 2031.
According to Space News, Tianwen-3 will include a lander, an ascent vehicle, an orbiter and a return module; it also may use a helicopter and a six-legged robot for gathering samples at a distance from the lander. RELATED STORIES—NASA Mars samples, which could contain evidence of life, will not return to Earth as initially planned—Mars may have been more Earth-like than we thought, discovery of oxygen-rich rocks reveals
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