NASA is gearing up for a 2020 Mars rover mission designed to search for signs of past life, according to a 154-page report released Tuesday. The unnamed 2020 mission’s search for life is the “next logical step” for Martian exploration, NASA said. The new rover’s design will be based on its predecessor, Curiosity, which landed on Mars last summer and is still roaming the planet’s surface. Curiosity was built to search for places on Mars that could have sustained life, and the 2020 rover will check those hospitable areas for traces of it.
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New Rover to Take Up Hunt for Martian Life in 2020
Posted by: Rachelle Dragani July 10, 2013 04:23 PMNASA is gearing up for a 2020 Mars rover mission designed to search for signs of past life, according to a 154-page report released Tuesday. The unnamed 2020 mission’s search for life is the “next logical step” for Martian exploration, NASA said. The new rover’s design will be based on its predecessor, Curiosity, which landed on Mars last summer and is still roaming the planet’s surface. Curiosity was built to search for places on Mars that could have sustained life, and the 2020 rover will check those hospitable areas for traces of it.