Europlanet Research Infrastructure: During a press tour of JPL, we were given an overview of the Mars 2020 mission by its Principal Investigator, Ken Farley. Mars 2020 is NASA's next flagship mission to the Red Planet. It has four main objectives: to determine whether life ever arose on Mars; to characterise the climate of Mars; to characterise the geology of Mars; and to prepare for human exploration. The Mars 2020 mission re-uses much of the technology developed for Mars Science Laboratory and...
Europlanet Research Infrastructure: During a press tour of JPL, we were given an overview of the Mars 2020 mission by its Principal Investigator, Ken Farley. Mars 2020 is NASA's next flagship mission to the Red Planet. It has four main objectives: to determine whether life ever arose on Mars; to characterise the climate of Mars; to characterise the geology of Mars; and to prepare for human exploration. The Mars 2020 mission re-uses much of the technology developed for Mars Science Laboratory and...
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