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Perseverance continues science mission amid uncertainty about Mars Sample Return

NASA’s Perseverance rover is continuing active science on Mars, collecting and caching rock and regolith samples despite growing uncertainty about when — or whether — those samples will be returned to Earth under the Mars Sample Return effort. The rover remains operational and continuing planned investigations in Jezero Crater.

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