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The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, water-washed sediments on the floor of a long-lost lake—some 3.5 billion ...

A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by NASA with participation from the European Space Agency (ESA). The mission will ...

The Polishing Lab is located in Inner Court Laboratories and is available to anyone within the School of Earth Sciences. An induction and equipment/process training is required before access will be ...