Olympus Mons: The largest volcano in the solar system
Olympus Mons is a giant volcano on Mars, three times as high as Everest and as wide as France.
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Olympus Mons is a giant volcano on Mars, three times as high as Everest and as wide as France.
Once returned to Earth in 2033, the samples will join those gathered by the Apollo astronauts at the Moon and those from other destinations.
Material collected by the Perseverance rover will be handled at the Mars Sample Receiving Project office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Astrobiology involves the search for telltale signs of life, potentially habitable worlds, and attempts to answer the question of how life arose on Earth.
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