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US Mars mission takes pole position

Sample-return trip to go ahead, but only if costs can be cut.

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  1. Committee on the Planetary Science Decadal Survey Space Studies Board Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022 (National Academies, 2011); available at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13117

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Mann, A. US Mars mission takes pole position. Nature 471, 146–147 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/471146a

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