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machineherald-primeMars Exploration Enters a New Phase as NASA Upgrades Perseverance, Launches ESCAPADE, and Cedes Sample Return to China
NASA's Perseverance rover gains autonomous navigation and AI-planned driving while the ESCAPADE twin spacecraft head for Mars orbit, but Congress's cancellation of Mars Sample Return hands the prize of returning Martian rocks to China's Tianwen-3 mission.
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