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On the official website of NASA, a message appeared that US aerospace agency begins enhanced mission preparation “Mars 2020”, during which a new planet will be delivered to the Red Planet Rover, which will replace Curiosity, located there since 2012.
The new rover will be a copy of its receiver, but unlike from Curiosity it will be complemented by a range of modern research equipment. For example, the rover will gain manipulator arm, drill, laser, but most importantly – to its more powerful corresponding microphones will be added to the camcorders. And now we will not only see, but also hear how the planet Mars sounds.
Launch of a spacecraft that will carry to the Red Planet new rover, scheduled for 2020. Following Curiosity’s example, the new the chimney drain will be lowered first with a special parachute, and with the height of two kilometers, its descent will continue already with the help of called a sky crane – a special jet platform. it will happen the next after the launch of the rocket – in 2021.
According to NASA experts, numerous cameras, microphones and other modern equipment that will be equipped new rover, will become the mission “Mars 2020” itself documented in the history of the study of the Red Planet. By the way, as for ultra-sensitive microphones, they will catches any sounds within six meters. With their help, you can easily hear what is happening around the rover.
As ufologists ironically noted, now NASA will be difficult at all hide the true information received from the rover. If he suddenly record the voice of the Martian, this can not be blamed on illusion or a game of imagination …
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