Nasa is now looking for
ways to bring Martian rock and soil back to Earth, allowing scientists to study
the soil composition for the first time and investigate for signs of if the
planet ever had life. The Mars Program Planning Group is putting together
different ways of returning a sample within the next 20 years, with Nasa
potentially choosing which path to follow by next February. One option involves
'multiple launches', a Mars Ascent Vehicle which will fire rock and soil into
space, from which it can be collected and sent back to Earth. A small satellite in Mars orbit holding soil samples ready for collection. Missions
to Mars can only take place every 26 months or so, when the planets are
properly aligned, and one suggestion is that a 'blast soil into space and scoop
it up' mission could be staggered over separate launches. We are not going to
visit Mars anytime in the next decade or two so the next best thing is to bring
some of the Red Planet back to us. Mean while Wise labs are coming up with designs that allow launching to take place at fifty thousand feet from a balloon cluster. Three to four balloon's can hall a launch pad near orbit and a rocket can excel into space caring sufficient load capacities such as food water or a mars mission hook up with the mars rover to retrieve soil samples back to Earth. These designs could lead to greater tests Wise labs plans to design such a launch pad for the DIY enthusiast could fully terminally control from ground might anything go wrong. A Moon orbiter that can excavate from its base having three thruster's to escape gravitational field of a moon. Wise hope is to show that these designed technologies could be licenced to benefit humanities uncharted progress.
As Nasa consider
Another option is to perform the mission in one shot but that
will put a lot of unnecessary costs onto Nasa also the learning of putting
components in place would be compromised along with laps in progressive
technologies. To do it in a small amount of time might just be too costly for
the space organisation. Orlando Figueroa, team leader of the Mars Program
Planning Group, said '[All the options]
have their pluses and minuses. One such would be depending on one spot of the
red planets surface. drilling excavation at the base of a rocket would seem easier than teeming up with a rover with a robotic arm. A new design that could be used in many of the planets probes.
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