NASAS NEXT MARS ROVER WILL SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF LIFE
By Mike Wallspace.com
7-10-13
NASAs next Mars rover should hunt for signs of past Red Planet life and collect samples for eventual return to Earth, a team of mission planners announced recently.
The new Mars rover - slated to launch in 2020 - should explore a site that once was habitable, make its own observations and snag material for scientists here on Earth to study in unprecedented detail at some point in the future, according to a new report compiled by the missions "science definition team" (SDT).
"The SDT-preferred mission concept employs new in situ scientific instrumentation in order to seek signs of past life (had it been there), select and store a compelling suite of samples in a returnable cache and demonstrate technology for future robotic and human exploration of Mars," states the report, which was released to the public today (July 9)....
A sketch of the design for NASAs 2020 Mars rover. Planning for NASAs 2020 Mars rover envisions a basic structure that capitalizes on re-using the design and engineering work done for the NASA rover Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012, but with new science instruments selected through competition for accomplishing different science objectives with the 2020 mission.
CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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