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El Spamo
Aug 21, 2003

Fuss and misery
That landing zone accuracy is also incredibly important for the sample return mission. They'll need to land close to where those samples are cached, and being able to do that within a few km, or shoot... 1km to 500m away?
The little fetch rover will mostly likely be literally that, little, so it can't be running halfway across the planet to pick up samples.

As much as I wish humans can land on mars in my lifetime, I think I can probably count on seeing martian rock samples be returned to Earth which is... pretty incredible.

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