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After all, recent studies of the Red Planet have not only suggested water in the icy poles, but underground.

Bringing back samples from the Red Planet would help us beat the Chinese, send humans into space and learn about how planets form.

Three weeks ago, Musk said that the Moon is a “distraction” and that a manned mission to the Red Planet would take precedence over moon bases.

The lander carried a seismometer, which recorded four years' of vibrations - Mars quakes - from deep inside the Red Planet.

Scripps Oceanography geologist James Day and his colleagues report May 31 in the journal Science Advances on analyses of the chemical compositions of these samples from the Red Planet.