Nasa Wants to Organize a Mission to Mars Rocks Brought to Earth
Over the past decade, the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Mars Exploration strategy focused on water searches. Water found traces of the weather-beaten rocks mineral deposits and the arctic plains.
Now scientists say that it is time to look back to life – what the space agency does not have direct involvement since 1976 when the mission of Viking has returned empty-handed.
Now NASA wants to bring Martian rock and soil samples to Earth.
Here they can be analyzed, searching for fossilized extraterrestrial bacteria or traces of chemical or biological cues that could be explained only by linking them with living organisms.
NASA can not afford to hold such a mission and recently combined their efforts with the European Space Agency is building a common project.
Space policy experts believe that despite the dangers and the high cost of the project the time for such a mission is appropriate.
It is estimated that the total project will cost about 10 billion. U.S. dollars.
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