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- NASA’s focus at the red planet has shifted to collecting and bringing rock samples back to Earth — a feat that could take a decade and leave little money for other Mars missions — and the space agency is counting on the workhorse Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter continuing its imaging and radio relay functions for nearly 10 more years, officials said last week.
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Aug 5, 2022 · NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover set out to answer a big question when it landed on the Red Planet 10 years ago: Could Mars have supported ancient life? Scientists have discovered the answer is yes and have been working to learn more about the planet’s past habitable environment.
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Jun 23, 2017 · Among its recommendations, the document suggests NASA should immediately commit to a Mars telecommunications and high-resolution imaging orbiter to replace rapidly aging assets currently in...
Apr 16, 2024 · NASA’s Mars Exploration Program will focus the next two decades on its science-driven systemic approach on these strategic goals: exploring for potential life, understanding the geology and climate of Mars, and preparation for human exploration.
- A New Phase
- Two Life-Hunting Rovers
- Boots on The Red Ground?
NASA has hunted for Mars life before. The agency's Viking 1 and Viking 2 landers, which in 1976 became the first spacecraft ever to touch down on the Red Planet, each carried four biological experiments. But the Vikings returned ambiguous results, forcing a strategy rethink. The Viking missions"showed us that life is pretty difficult to find," Vasa...
That brings us to Mars 2020 and Rosalind Franklin. The ExoMars rover is scheduled to touch down in March 2021, likely in Oxia Planum, a plain in the Red Planet's northern hemisphere that shows lots of evidence of ancient water activity. The solar-powered Rosalind Franklin will use its cameras and scientific instruments to search for morphological a...
There will be much more Mars activity in the 2020s as well — a lot just this year, in fact, if all goes according to plan. China aims to launch an orbiter-rover missionto the Red Planet this summer, in the same July-August window that Mars 2020 and Rosalind Franklin are targeting. (Such windows come just once every 26 months, when Earth and Mars al...
Feb 18, 2021 · However many Perseverance collects, they all must be ready for eventual pickup by a tag-team duo—a Sample Retrieval Lander and an Earth Return Orbiter—that could launch late this decade.
Jul 30, 2020 · Esa's Trace Gas Orbiter has been gathering long-term observations of gases such as methane in the Martian atmosphere. The results could provide a better idea of what's going on.
