Should be able to. They did it just yesterday.
The thing that ticks me off more than anything is that we could avoid all these problems if the government would just devote more funding to NASA to make improvements, but with our President against these scientific things (being a Christian/Creationist) and with our economy in such a bad state, finding extraterrestrial life on Mars is not the biggest concern... unfortunately. Then again, these budgetary cuts on NASA have been occurring since Apollo 11.
You know, this could very well be the biggest scientific expedition in history since Columbus discovered the New World. If we do find life... then it pretty much rewrites how we think of ourselves in the universe. Not only that, but it might also begin our glorious Atheist revolution and the birth of advanced logical times.
Still, if we don't find anything, then we've still got some cool samples to analyze and study further.
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