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Earthbound! NASA Rover deposits second rock sample for Mars Sample Return
NASA's Perseverance Rover has now deposited its second rock sample, following the first which was deposited less than a week ago for NASA's Sample Return programme. Mars Sample Return is NASA's programme to bring important scientific samples back to Earth in a bid to study the red planet's conditions for potentially establishing a colony one day. NASA's Mars Sample Return programme is a series of missions to retrieve scientific samples of Mars collected by the Perseverance rover. One of the most ambitious space missions ever planned, the Mars Sample Return mission would allow scientists to study those samples using state-of-the-art technology here on Earth. Just days ago, the mission was kicked off with the first ever sample collected and deposited at the pickup location by NASA's Perseverance Rover on December 21.