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The Senate committee's budget report raised concerns about NASA's technical issues. NASA's ambitious Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission has drawn criticism from the US Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, prompting the panel to propose a fiscal year 2024 budget allocation for the mission at $300 million, less than one-third of NASA's $949 million request.
The scientist speculates that the wind may have played a role in gradually enlarging any pre-existing pits or cavities in the rock. Alternatively, the rock could have had a weaker center. Ultimately, from a scientific standpoint, the doughnut-shaped rock does not appear to possess any extraordinary features.