The future of NASA's Mars target will search for life on the red planet, whether in the past whether there is life on Mars, or with the conditions of life, will be NASA's detection strategy. However, released in February 2013, NASA plans to budget, on Mars exploration in part by slashing, its direct reason is that NASA launched in 2016 and 2018, dominated by the European Mars exploration program, decided to remake the use on behalf of the higher technical level of robots to Mars.
NASA's curiosity rover
On April 13, according to NASA headquarters in Washington Mars exploration program director Doug MaiKui si shen (Doug McCuistion) Dr Is introduced: the ultimate goal of Mars exploration program is looking for signs of life, frankly, is currently operating all plans carries the mission of Mars. NASA announced earlier this week the future Mars exploration plan blueprint, and will launch the probe function and shape, these tasks for same to extinction of the past life on Mars or are activities under the Martian surface soil microorganisms as the goal.
NASA has set up a special subcommittee (MPPG) Mars project plan, by the aerospace engineer Orlando Figueroa (Orlando Figueroa) leadership. The committee's job is to assess the future missions to Mars, is designed to help America's space agency, NASA, determined to explore the content. But it is just a supporting role, concrete exploration projects and indicators such as the decision making process or be NASA's decision, therefore, by the engineer's Orlando figueroa team planning results of Mars exploration is not the final answer.
The original plan, NASA and the European space agency in 2016 and 2018, respectively, to carry out the "trace gases orbiter" and "life on Mars explorer (lander) two important Mars exploration mission, its astrobiology project belongs to Mars exploration program, via satellite to Mars rovers research atmosphere of methane concentration, soil trace element and evidence for microbial life below the surface of Mars. But now, NASA gave up this two dominated by European Mars, instead of planning in 2018 (2020) the latest planned launch of NASA's own dominant.
At present, the Mars project plan subcommittee is evaluating the new Mars exploration mission, the commission said it might cost $500 million to $700 million. In recent years, NASA's Mars exploration program significantly reduced, but with $2.5 billion worth of curiosity rover to Mars in August Mr Law west AngPing gale crater on the edge of the original, the surface of Mars exploration will bring about a new wave. At the end of 2013, NASA will launch a named "Mars atmosphere and volatile evolution detector" (Maven), its goal is to a new round of the Martian atmosphere detection, measuring the velocity of the Martian atmosphere molecules escape, the entire project funds will be control at $five hundred million.
2018 or 2020, however, the new round of large-scale Mars exploration program is still not sure how much rovers and detector, but look from NASA announced task prototype, this round of Mars exploration program will focus on the Martian soil samples back to earth, many researchers think that this is the search of whether life exist on Mars activity traces left the best way. According to NASA's science mission bureau deputy director John Glenn Mansfield (John Grunsfeld) introduction: in the long run, both Mars robotic exploration and future plans to Mars, it is the most priority to Martian soil and rock samples back to earth.
The President of the United States has ordered the national aeronautics and space administration, in the hope that in the mid - 2030 astronauts to Mars, so we will also reshape existing exploration target strategy of comprehensive exploration of the red planet. According to NASA officials said: whether Mars exploration robots, now or future manned Mars exploration mission, looking for besides the earth body on the sign of life is still a key component.
If confirmed there is life on Mars, we first must understand they pose a threat to whether humans, even in the primitive state of microbes, after all, they are not from the earth. Search for life is a key problem to explore the universe, it will directly answer isn't the only exists in the universe biological, based on this and we will also explore the form of existence and human can coexist with them safely on a planet.
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