Oh Wow loved watching perseverance space probe landing on Mars...Oh that they could find a planet more advanced than us to help our ailing planet out. Friendly Martians that what we need...Look forward to seeing more on Mars .

I can't wait to see a sarcastic American fridge cartwheel out of it in the next episode.

"Future missions fuelled by Europe and the US will retrieve these samples and return them to Earth."
How will they return them back to Earth? A manned mission?
If it is a manned mission, we will be waiting a long time.
We have always been fascinated with Mars and I can't wait to find out the answer to that crucial question of was/is there life on Mars.

Not a manned mission but it will be at least 10 years from now. This explains it all. Incredible stuff .
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-mars-landing-perseverance-rover-rock-sample-return-mission/

Wow! Incredible stuff indeed.
That is a very complicated procedure and so much can go wrong with this.
It's a good job we have some very clever people on this planet, and I hope they can pull this one off.