America, Europe cooperate in exploring Mars

The United States and Europe will cooperate on a new Mars ship development project called ExoMars. Expected, the first probe in this project will be completed and launched to Mars in 2016.

Fox News reported that the European Space Agency (ESA) and the US Space Agency (NASA) will collaborate on a new Mars exploration project called ExoMars. It is expected that the probes and experimental equipment will be launched on the surface of the red planet in 2016 and 2018. The mission of this project is to study the climate conditions on Mars, looking for signs of live and collect and send physical samples on Mars to Earth, to serve manned flights to Mars in the future.

The image simulates an exploration ship in the ExoMars project. (Photo: ESA).

ESA and NASA joint projects will include two basic devices with different exploration tasks. The Trace Gas Orbiter has a mission to study the atmosphere through geological or biological activities on the red planet. Meanwhile, the EDM simulator will study the best way to land on the Martian surface.

' After landing at the surface of Mars, the EDM device will act as an environmental analysis station for several days, ' said Jorge Vago, a member of the ExoMars project. ' This device will measure the speed and direction of wind, pressure, temperature, humidity and electrification on Mars ' surfaces .

To determine atmospheric conditions on the surface of Mars while EDM equipment landed on the surface of the planet, a group of scientists from nine countries around the world are developing a set of sensors. This sensor, mounted on an EDM device, can measure wind speed and direction, humidity and even the purity of the atmosphere on Mars.

Under the ExoMars project, the third device, the probe Mars Sample Return (MSR), will be launched on Mars in 2018. MSR is tasked with collecting physical samples and looking for signs of life. on the red planet and then return to Earth.

Both NASA and ESA assess that the ExoMars project has a significant impact on manned flights to Mars in the future.