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This artist's concept of the proposed Mars Sample Return mission shows the launch of the martian sample back toward Earth. This image is part of a series designed to describe the current groundbreaking Mars Sample Return mission concept (see figure 1 below for a composite of the series), with a tentative launch date of 2013.
![figure 1 for PIA05486](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080924065913im_/http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/figures/PIA05486-fig1_thumb.jpg) Figure 1: series composite
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NASA/JPL
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