This newest rover project will lean heavily on the work done by Curiosity. Much of the technology and hardware will mirror Curiosity's almost completely. This is, in part, due to funding which is half of the two billion that was allotted to the Curiosity project. Also its' mission will be fundamentally the same as that of Curiosity.
One of NASA's goals in the future is a system to bring Martian soil samples back to Earth for further analyst. The as yet unnamed rover mission will help lay the ground work for that future mission.
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