Welp. Perseverance has found some very interesting samples. These are going to be returned to Earth by a future mission, and in the mean time have been cached.
Some of them contain carbon-rich compounds, although this doesn't necessarily mean life (there are other ways these compounds could exist). But it's going to take a lot of analysis to determine that for sure...
...some of which will require bringing them back to Earth. Which of course opens the can of whether we should bring carbon-rich material from another planet to Earth. Maybe we should study it in a space station where we can toss it out an airlock if we have to.
I mean, we've all seen that movie.
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