Washington, Feb 18 (Ians) NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which is slated to touch down in Jezero Crater at around 3.55 p.m. Est on Thursday (2.25 a.m. Friday India time) is tasked with searching for telltale signs that microbial life may have lived on Mars billions of years ago.
It will collect rock core samples in metal tubes, and future missions would return these samples to Earth for deeper study, NASA said.
"To quote Carl Sagan," said Gentry Lee, Chief Engineer for the Planetary Science Directorate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
"'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the discovery that life existed elsewhere in the universe would certainly be extraordinary,'" Lee said in a statement, while quoting the American astronomer.
Mars 2020 mission scientists believe that Jezero Crater, the landing site for Perseverance, could be home to such evidence.
They know that 3.5 billion years ago, Jezero was the site of a large lake,...
It will collect rock core samples in metal tubes, and future missions would return these samples to Earth for deeper study, NASA said.
"To quote Carl Sagan," said Gentry Lee, Chief Engineer for the Planetary Science Directorate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
"'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the discovery that life existed elsewhere in the universe would certainly be extraordinary,'" Lee said in a statement, while quoting the American astronomer.
Mars 2020 mission scientists believe that Jezero Crater, the landing site for Perseverance, could be home to such evidence.
They know that 3.5 billion years ago, Jezero was the site of a large lake,...
- 2/18/2021
- by IANS
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