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NASA planetarians are preparing to launch the new Mars 2020 rover, which will search for biological life on this mysterious planet.
Today announced that a preliminary list of places to be masochod planted, reduced from twenty one to eight. Such the decision was made at a seminar recently held in California. During Ezero Crater won first place, since discovered an ancient river (its dried delta), as well as rocks in the alleged upper course of the Martian bed. Probably, in this place there may be at least some signs of life on Mars.
Columbia Hills, a district already learned using the rover Spirit. Since the rover found silicon deposits here, this indicates the presence in this place ancient hydrothermal system that once could feed biological life on Mars.
The possibility of landing the rover “Mars 2020” on the edge of Isidis Basin, since only a thorough study of this place can reveal the secret of the loss of the red planet of its dense atmosphere.
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The new rover will be like a Curiosity rover, but in unlike him, he will be able to drill the surface in order to extract soil, to then deliver these samples to Earth. Scientists want to get two types of such samples, on the one hand, for their presence biological life, and on the other – igneous rocks, which can “tell” how the Red Planet was formed.
The next seminar of scientists on this issue will be held in 2017, it will be finally determined the landing site of the rover “Mars 2020 “and its value. While it is pulling one and a half billion dollar.
By the way, before the departure of “Mars 2020” to the Red Planet it is planned to launch the American probe InSight (2016) and apparatus ExoMars, created by the joint efforts of scientists of Russia and Western European countries (2019).
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