Mars reaches its closest point to Earth every 26 months. If you want to send a spacecraft to the Red Planet, that’s the time to do it. And that’s exactly what the US, Europe, Russia, and China plan to do next year. Three missions are scheduled to blast off in July 2020: NASA’s Mars 2020; ExoMars 2020, run jointly by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia’s Roscosmos; and the Mars 2020 mission of the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The first mission aims to, for the first time, collect martian samples that will one day be returned to Earth. The second plans to drill deeper than ever before beneath Mars’s surface, where signs of life may lie waiting. The third would be China’s first successful Mars landing. Like most Mars rovers, all three carry instruments that can analyze molecules in rocks and soil to look for evidence that life
3 Mars vehicles with different chemical missions will take off for the Red Planet in 2020
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The Mars 2020 rover will explore an ancient delta in Jezero crater, shown in this colorized image. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JHU-APL)
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Chemical & Engineering News ; 97 , 29 ; 33-39
22.07.2019
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