Science, Technology and Society 361: "Mars Exploration" -- Fall 2010

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Pebbles and Soild: 2020 Mission


Possible soil and pebble samples from Mars will be collected from NASA's next Mars rover. NASA is creating the groundwork of a sample return mission in 2020. They believe this will be the best possiblity of finding out if there really was life on Mars. Scientist belive that the life that could be found on Mars would be unique compared to any other place in the solar system. They are trying to find a new place to land other than where Opprotunity landed. They want to place that has clays, which may have been formed by water interacting with rocks.

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