Could Martian atmospheric samples teach us more about the Red Planet than surface samples?

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Could Martian atmospheric samples teach us more about the Red Planet than surface samples?
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NASA is actively working to return surface samples from Mars in the next few years, which they hope will help us better understand whether ancient life once existed on the Red Planet’s surface billions of years ago.

Dr. Swindle and Dr. Young both mention how efforts are being made to collect small quantities of atmospheric gas due to the small size of the sample tubes, with Dr. Swindle telling, “A big set of questions right now is how good a sealed Perseverance tube would be at containing an atmospheric sample.

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