NASA is about to launch new Mars explorer robots: Find alien life

Mars 2020 will follow Curiosity to explore Mars, thus paving the way for people to dock in the future Red Planet.

Currently, Curiosity autonomous robots on Mars are still doing very well on their mission. It is this robot that has brought about many important discoveries, such as determining what the Martian surface composition is, thereby identifying the places that are capable of nourishing life on the Red planet.

Curiosity - NASA's most current self-propelled robot until now.

However, in 2015 humankind suddenly discovered that Mars has liquid water, meaning the possibility of survival here is extremely high. However, Curiosity is not allowed to access this water, due to fears that robots can destroy the water.

So NASA decided to build a new self-propelled robot for Mars , with the name Mars Rover 2020 expected to land on Red Planet in February 2021. The mission of "super Curiosity" will be to test and collect soil samples to prove the existence of microorganisms on Mars, while clearing the way for human beings to "dock" then about 10-20 Another year.

Design of Mars 2020.

According to Geoffrey Yoder, NASA's vice president of Science Campaign Project in Washington: "Mars 2020 is the first step in a series of missions to collect soil, rock on Mars and bring them back to Earth safely."

"It marks an important milestone in NASA's journey to conquer Mars - determining whether life can exist on the planet and at the same time turning the goal of bringing people to the Red Planet into reality." - Yoder shares more.

New NASA robots will be equipped with the most advanced equipment, to exploit Mars with the most thorough level ever. For example, the amount of oxygen that can be used on the planet will be investigated very carefully, to serve the human journey.

Robots are also fitted with 2 state-of-the-art equipment to collect the surface of the planet.

The robot is also equipped with 2 advanced devices to collect the surface of the planet, then transfer to Earth. NASA's laboratory has since been able to analyze, find evidence of Mars's past life.

In addition, the latest positioning image system will allow it to determine which areas are suitable for landing, which areas are not safe, then pair with maps and transfer them to humans.

Not yet! The Mars 2020 also has a microphone attached, and it can be said that we will directly hear what happens on Mars with a satellite communication system. Matt Wallace - Mars 2020 project manager said: "This will be a great opportunity to listen to the sounds of Mars, and it will bring a lot of useful information."

Mars 2020 uses the same landing system as Curiosity.

And the most striking is Meda - a sensor system that evaluates temperature, wind speed, pressure, humidity . everything in Mars's atmosphere.

"We will consider the ability to capture Mars's atmosphere, convert the huge amount of CO2 here into pure oxygen ," said James Reuther, NASA's deputy manager of NASA's Space Technology program . will make way for people to conquer this planet more easily in the future ".

That's the best, so the estimated cost for Mars 2020 is about . 1.5 billion USD - equivalent to more than 35,000 billion VND. However, this figure is actually lower than the $ 1 billion Curiosity predecessor. That's because the new design of Mars 2020 has allowed a lot of cost reduction.