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Nature 449, 972 (25 October 2007) | doi:10.1038/449972c; Published online 24 October 2007

Mars needs technology designed for sample return

John Whitehead1

  1. Physical Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, L-072 PO Box 808, Livermore, California 94551, USA

In your Q&A 'Space, science and the bottom line' (Nature 448, 978; 2007), Alan Stern, NASA's associate administrator for science, expresses his determination to make the Mars sample-return programme a reality. On NASA's wish list for decades, the mission would collect and return to Earth samples of martian rocks, soils and atmosphere.

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