NASA is about to announce a new discovery about life on Mars

NASA's press conference this weekend will reveal the exploration results of the Curiosity robot after the device drills down the surface of the red planet .

The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) will hold a press conference at 1 am on June 8, Vietnam time to share the latest discovery on Mars , according to Express. NASA kept the news of the press conference confidential, but confirmed the content will focus on "new scientific results from Mars Curiosity exploration robots" , possibly related.

Robot Cusiosity drill down to the Martian surface to get the specimen.(Artwork: Cover Image).

The press conference is likely to be held at NASA headquarters in Washington DC, USA. Ashwin Vasavada, project scientist at NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, will attend this weekend's press conference. Michelle Thaller, assistant director of scientific communications at NASA's Planetary Science Division, will host the show. The press conference was also attended by Paul Mahaffy, director of the Solar System Discovery Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Jen Eigenbrode, researcher from Goddard and Chris Webster, graduate student. at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Mars Curiosity probe took off from the Canaveral Cape Air Station in Florida on November 26, 2011 and landed on Mars in August 2012 to study the planet's climate and geology, as well as find out. Whether Mars can sustain life or have liquid water. Since Curiosity began drilling down the surface of Mars for the first time in the last 18 months, it could be discovered that it would be related to what the probe had dug.

Curiosity had to abandon the plan to take specimens from the Martian surface after the technical problem made it impossible to operate the drill in October 2016. However, NASA engineers have developed a new technique to restore drilling capabilities of the explorer device, using robotic arms to push the drill bit forward when spinning.

NASA shares a 360-degree image of the Martian surface filmed by the Curiosity robot.(Video: NASA).

The new drilling technique called Feed Extended Drilling (FED) helps the drill reach a little further away from the fixed point, used to hold the pre-fired rock drill. The engineering team developed a copy-based technique of the Curiosity robot on Earth. They took almost a year to complete the method and successfully applied on Mars on May 20.

At first, Curiosity was scheduled to work on a two-year mission to gather information to help answer the question of whether Mars could support life or contain liquid water. However, due to success, the mission is extended indefinitely. Curiosity has been active for over 2,000 days, sending thousands of photos. The $ 2.5 billion probe has traveled about 18 km on the surface of Mars. NASA will replace it with new exploration equipment by 2020.