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    A Mars sample-return (MSR) mission is a proposed mission to collect rock and dust samples on Mars and return them to Earth. Such a mission would allow...
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    A sample-return mission is a spacecraft mission to collect and return samples from an extraterrestrial location to Earth for analysis. Sample-return missions...
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    The NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return is a proposed Flagship-class Mars sample return (MSR) mission to collect Martian rock and soil samples in 43 small, cylindrical...
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    sample return mission, one of the latest known as Martian Moon Sample Return or MMSR, and it may use heritage from an asteroid sample return mission....
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  • Tianwen-3 (category Missions to Mars)
    (Chinese: 天问三号) is a planned Mars sample-return mission by China which would send two spacecraft (an orbiter/Earth-returner and a lander/ascent-vehicle) via...
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    missions to Mars's moons, or flyby missions. Many Mars mission concepts propose precursor missions to the moons of Mars, for example a sample return mission...
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  • Chandrayaan-4 (category Missions to the Moon)
    is a planned lunar sample-return mission and the fourth mission in the Chandrayaan programme, a series of lunar-exploration missions developed by the Indian...
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    Chang'e 6 (category Sample return missions)
    China's second sample return mission. The mission will attempt to obtain the first-ever soil and rock samples from the lunar far side and return it to the...
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    1999. Its primary mission was to collect dust samples from the coma of comet Wild 2, as well as samples of cosmic dust, and return them to Earth for analysis...
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    NASA sample-return probe that collected a sample of solar wind particles and returned them to Earth for analysis. It was the first NASA sample-return mission...
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