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that would have been growing in the sea. the other important aspect of this is that we are looking very, very far back in the history of the solar system and with what that means is life would not have had much of a chance to advance very far and that s why we always say we re looking for evidence of potential microbial life. reporter: they will dig out samples and store them in cubes and analyze them. the front of the rover then has another sample handling arm which manages those tubes and the samples inside of them to do imaging and measure the volume and then we ll seal those and store those for planned future return to earth. reporter: it s one clear whether perseverance will be back. their collection of rock samples could be back on earth in a decade. michael holmes, cnn. i m alison kosik in new york. thanks for spending part of your day with he me. you can follow me on twitter and

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