NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.
NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if the cache can make it back in the 2030s.
The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.
NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.
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