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The Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission is an ambitious collaborative project between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) aimed at collecting rock and soil samples from Mars and bringing them back to Earth for detailed analysis. This groundbreaking endeavor involves multiple stages, including the deployment of a rover to Mars to collect and cache samples, a subsequent mission to retrieve these samples and launch them into Mars orbit, and a final spacecraft designed to capture the orbiting samples and safely transport them back to Earth. The scientific goal of MSR is to analyze the Martian samples in sophisticated Earth laboratories to search for signs of past life on Mars and to study the planet’s geology and climate history, potentially providing insights into the broader questions of planetary formation and evolution in our solar system.