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Re:The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled by lithobraking on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:59PM (#49793337)
I'm personally sad to see samples from Jezero crater with potential biosignatures [1] won't find their way back to Earth for the foreseeable future. I was _really_ looking forward to learning more about what we found.

Maybe in some ideal world the US and China would work together to pass those samples on to a Chinese MSR, but it seems borderline impossible.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09413-0

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