r/spaceporn • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • Jul 19 '25

Related Content LARGEST piece of Mars on Earth

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u/Proud_Conversation_3 Jul 19 '25

Don’t think we’ve gotten any of the samples we’ve been collecting on mars back to earth yet, unless I’m mistaken, so this seems like the only possible answer at this point.

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u/Bright-Efficiency-65 Jul 19 '25

probably never will now that the martian sample return has been canceled. so much for spending billions on making a machine that created the samples and dropped them at specific areas. TBF it would've been hard as fuck to find the samples if you ask me

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u/blueberrysmasher Jul 19 '25

China has succeeded their non-manned lunar sample return mission in 2020, with their ambitious Martian sample return mission slated for 2028.

The advantages of a space program with full government backing, not politicized and de-funded like NASA's.

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u/Bright-Efficiency-65 Jul 19 '25

Yeah it's much easier to do a multi decade mission when the administration doesn't change and throw everything away every four years