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No sample deliberately collected on Mars has ever been examined in a laboratory on Earth, because bringing one home requires launching a sealed container from the Martian surface, autonomously rendezvousing with another spacecraft in orbit, and carrying it across interplanetary space; China plans to accomplish all three with Tianwen-3 and return at least 500 grams of Martian material around 2031.

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China’s Tianwen-3 mission is planned to become the first mission to deliberately collect Mars samples and return them to Earth. A 2025 *Nature Astronomy* perspective led by chief scientist Hou Zengqia

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