PARIS (AFP) - 'We have lift-off, we have lift-off!' The summer race to land a space probe on Mars is off to a hot start.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS -"We have lift-off, we have lift-off!" The summer race to land a space probe on Mars is off to a hot start.
Space agencies from all three nations plan to send rovers to the Red Planet to look for additional signs of past life and potentially pave the way to - someday - step foot on its surface.The UAE's Hope Probe - the first interplanetary mission by an Arab country - launches on July 15. China plans to send its inaugural Mars probe, a small remote-controlled rover, between July 20 and July 25.
"It's the only planet where we've been able to detect past signs of life, and the more we learn about it more hope there is," Michel Viso, an astrobiologist at CNES, France's space agency, told AFP. The holy grail, he added, is getting boots on the ground:"This represents the 'ultimate frontier' of space exploration." So far, only the US has done detailed feasibility studies, and in a best-case scenario achieving that goal will take at least 20 years.
Scientists are still trying to determine whether the planet was ever inhabited by metabolic life forms.
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