Planet Mars has announced an incredibly important project for all of humanity, those from NASA and ESA collaborating to complete the entire initiative designed to contribute substantially to the discovery of the red planet's secrets. According to the plan announced by NASA and ESA, the two space agencies intend to bring rocks from the planet Mars to analyze them thoroughly on Earth, and the plan is an extremely daring one.
The planet Mars is at a great distance from the Earth, a journey of several months being necessary for a ship to get there, but the even bigger problem is bringing it back to Earth together with the collected samples. The plan of NASA and ESA is to send a robot to the planet Mars to collect various rocks from the surface, to launch them into outer space, from where they will be collected by another remotely controlled ship, and returned to Earth.
NASA and ESA want to bring the first rocks from Mars to Earth
The planet Mars is very far away, and very difficult to explore, so the plan that NASA and ESA thought up is also very difficult to put into practice, but we are talking about the main space exploration agencies in Europe and the USA. Those from NASA have approved a funding of several billion dollars for this new project that aims to bring rocks from the planet Mars to Earth, but without the support of those from ESA, the goal will be much more difficult to achieve, unfortunately .
"The return of the sample from Mars is a key part of our future exploration program and I very much hope that European science ministers will support it. However, we should be clear that every step of the mission will be very challenging. Mars 2020 will collect soil samples, put them in small metal tubes, then seal them. Caches of these tubes will then be left at designated sites on the Martian surface."
The planet Mars is targeted by NASA for the first transports of astronauts in about 10 years, so until then they must learn as much as possible about the ecosystem that will welcome the people who will arrive there. Bringing rocks from the planet Mars to Earth for exploration is very important before sending humans, and this is because we are talking about a long journey, and a long stay that the astronauts have to do there.
The planet Mars is so far away that huge sums of money must be invested to get there and explore it, but these days we will also find out if ESA is willing to invest in the initiative of those from NASA.
