The six-Wheel Robot usage, NASA'S search for past life on Mars

The six-Wheel Robot usage, NASA'S search for past life on Mars

United States Space Agency, NASA, continue to deepen the research on Mars with a variety of tools that scour the surface or in orbit around the red planet at that. Currently NASA is also currently designing a new Robotics vehicle that will be launched in 2020 to explore the surface of Mars.

In a design that's uploaded NASA, visible vehicle named Mars 2020 it resembles a six-wheeled car. He provided a number of instruments for research and photographing samples over the objects that are found, and then sends it to the Earth.

Unlike the Curiosity that is currently still operating on Mars, Mars 2020 will examine the surface of Mars and rocks to search for evidence of past life.

NASA says Mars 2020 many borrow the basic design of an older brother, but he provided with instrument and a new system to further memelajari of Mars.

One of its main purpose is to determine the direction of future research, related human mission can take advantage of predictable resources on Mars.

"This experiment, will help researchers learn how to use the resources of Mars to produce oxygen for respiration and the potential of the human figure as the oxidizer for rocket fuel," wrote NASA in a statement.

The Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA, William Gerstenmaier said, Mars is very important because it has the resources needed to help sustain life.

He said the human need to understand the planet's deeper, including understanding the problem of dust and weather there, thus data for planning human trip to Mars mission.

Mars 2020 planned landing on the surface of Mars in February 2021 with a similar landing system such as Curiosity, and will have the ability to land on terrain more challenging but safe.

NASA currently operates two vehicle Robotics on the surface of Mars. Besides Curiosity that landed there since 2012, NASA also has a similar vehicle named Opportunity landed on Mars on January 25, 2004.

Opportunity comes with a set of tools for the memelajari variety of rocks and soils that can show past water activity on Mars. Its mission has been extended several times because of new discoveries and continues to make in depth.