Bringing samples home from Mars is not a simple thing:”Bringing Mars Samples to Earth: How NASA will do It” (via Space.com) It is also expensive. Of course, we already have pieces of Mars on earth, brought here by meteorites.
NASA -Image Gallery: See Curiosity‘s travel pictures, currently through to Sol 57.
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