Both NASA and ESA hope their next Mars rovers will find evidence that life once thrived on Mars, but they have different strategies to reach this goal. Their landing site choices reflect this difference.
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Lakdawalla, E. Similarities and differences in the landing sites of ESA’s and NASA’s 2020 Mars rovers. Nat Astron 3, 190–192 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0727-x
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