PASADENA, Dec 28 — A Nasa robotic rover is nearing completion ahead of a journey next year to search for evidence of past life on Mars and lay the groundwork for the space agency’s mission to send humans into deep space. The US space agency yesterday showed off its Mars 2020 rover, whose...
Saturday, 28 Dec 2019 11:30 AM MYT
PASADENA, Dec 28 — A Nasa robotic rover is nearing completion ahead of a journey next year to search for evidence of past life on Mars and lay the groundwork for the space agency’s mission to send humans into deep space. The four-wheeled, car-sized rover will scour the base of Mars’ Jezero Crater, an 820-foot-deep crater thought to have been a lake the size of Lake Tahoe, once the craft lands in February 2021. The crater is believed to have an abundance of pristine sediments some 3.5 billion years old that scientists hope will hold fossils of Martian life.
“Once we have a sufficient set, we’ll put them down on the ground, and another mission, which we hope to launch in 2026, will come, land on the surface, collect those samples and put them into a rocket, basically,” Wallace said. Humans have never before returned sediment samples from Mars.
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