The office will be located at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The two fetch helicopters will pick up the 10 depot samples if Perseverance can't get to the lander itself with the dozens of samples it will carry on its body.
The samples will then be launched via the lander's Mars Ascent Vehicle, which will be the first rocket ever to blast off from the Red Planet. The sample container will be scooped up in Mars orbit by ESA's Earth Return Orbiter , which is scheduled to launch from our planet in 2027. The samples will then be returned to Earth by the ERO's Earth Entry System, a disk-shaped craft with a heat shield that will allow for a safe journey throughIf all goes according to plan, Perseverance's samples will touch down here as early as 2033. And scientists now know where the samples will head after this complex return choreography is completed.
"Johnson will work with the agency's Mars Exploration Program and ESA to complete studies and develop plans for sample recovery and transportation, facility development and operation, and science investigations," Mars Sample Return lead scientist at the ESA, Gerhard Kminek, said in the same statement.
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