November 19, 2018

  • NASA’s next Mars rover will look for signs of life on an ancient crater lake

    NASA's Mars 2020 rover, with its robotic arm extended, in a 2017 artist's rendering. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

    November 19 at 12:00 PM

    In a search for ancient life on Mars, NASA will send its next rover to explore Jezero Crater — the site of a former delta and lake.

    The rover, which is scheduled to launch in 2020, is equipped with a drilling system that can collect and store rock samples that contain clues to Mars’s ancient past. Once the samples are cached, NASA hopes to send follow-up missions to retrieve the samples and return them to Earth.

    “Getting samples from this lake-delta system will revolutionize how we think about Mars and its ability to harbor life,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science.

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