A bipartisan congressional agreement on NASA's final budget for the current fiscal year offers a glimmer of hope that the space agency's ambitious but troubled effort to bring pieces of Mars to Earth can recover from devastating cuts.
The ultimate goal is to comb the samples for evidence that life has ever existed on Mars. That job may be left for future generations of scientists who will have access to technologies that don't yet exist, NASA says.
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