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NASA's 2016 launch spacecraft to Mars drilling

Penulis : Unknown on Saturday 13 July 2013 | 09:50

Tencent Science News  (Everett / compile) According to foreign media reports, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 2016, recently announced that it will launch a new probe to Mars to study the evolution of the Red Planet distinctive history, mission aims at trying to determine the core of Mars substance is a liquid or solid, and Mars, why not have a similar structure of the Earth's crust, can occur between the plates move. These explorations information will help scientists better understand the Fengyun very similar to Earth is a rocky planet formation and evolution of how.

NASA's next generation Mars Mars lander will explore the mysteries of the environment

According to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Science Mission Directorate, Deputy Secretary John Grunsfeld (John Grunsfeld) description: "a new generation of Mars lander named 'insight' number (InSight) detector, although we now have from the Mars Orbiter to explore the surface of Mars, but the next generation of Mars lander will be able to drill the surface of Mars, the core material and structure. "" Insight "Mars probe is positioned as a low-cost Mars exploration missions, through the planetary seismic survey, geodesy and planetary heat transfer mechanism to explore the Martian environment within, the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration latest planetary exploration missions, but the cost will be controlled at $ 425 million, which does not include the cost of launch vehicles.

The Mars exploration missions by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission specialist Bruce Barnard (Bruce Banerdt) leadership, launch task will start in March 2016, in Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will of the "Insight" Mars probe to control, to explore the surface of Mars in the form of landing, and a two-year exploration of Mars. "Insight" Mars landers will carry four main scientific instruments that can detect the rotation axis of Mars, Mars measurement of environmental activities within the scope of seismic waves and the global heat transfer mechanism. In addition, the "Insight" was also equipped with a robotic arm and two cameras.

During generation of astronomical discovery task preselection process, "Insight" Mars landers beat two other candidate to become the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Twelfth Planet Discovery Series tasks. The other two candidates involved in programs for "Comet Hopper" (Comet Hopper) and "Titanic Ocean Explorers" detector, the former mainly for the comet to explore, through multiple landing surface exploration around the sun comet comet formation and evolution. The "Titan Ocean Explorer" detector is mainly through direct landing huge Saturn satellite Titan surface contact with the ocean filled with methane and ethane for exploration and research.

From the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters in Washington officials believe that the solar system into the three candidate discovery task has strong scientific potential, and "insight" Mars landers are more attractive, it has a lower cost, this is because the use of NASA probe launched in 2007 "Phoenix" Mars probe program and the main design, which landed on Mars in 2008 and found a suspected Arctic liquid water droplets, scientists speculate Mars Arctic ice is underground. In addition, from France and Germany will also be equipped with scientific instruments in the "Insight" Mars landers, making the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration Mission Control can be found in the exploration budget in the lower range.

John Grunsfeld think the other two celestial discovery task has not been able to become finalized plan, because the ocean to explore Titan and comets surface alkanes greater cost risks, including the progress of the development task, it is obvious "Insight" Mars landers According yo with a higher probability of success, and the use of the previous Mars exploration in mature technology, not only can control costs can also be developed by the task of planning process table. In the current United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration's budget, the cost of high-tech maturity, and has a certain task to explore the value of mission success is to get a very important factor.

Prior to this, to succeed the Hubble Space Telescope James Webb Space Telescope, as well as input costs more than $ 8 billion, while the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity development costs of $ 2.5 billion. United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration to develop medium-term planning, the future will be the main direction of Mars exploration, the task can help its Mars Exploration Rover and the "curious" after the Mars Science Laboratory mission to continue to explore the surface of Mars, despite the recent U.S. aerospace Bureau caught in budget crisis, the White House has proposed in the 2013 federal budget cuts planetary science exploration missions to 20%, most of the funds needed for the Mars program.

Because of funding shortages, NASA has launched by the European-led ExoMars Mars exploration program, the task of scientists tried in 2016 and 2018 launch Mars orbiter and rovers landed on Mars surface exploration.

According to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Charles Bolden (Charles Bolden) description: "Mars is a high priority of the solar system discovered schemes to ensure that we continue to understand the Martian mysteries of the red planet, Mars for the future of mankind lay the foundation. "Because" Curiosity "Mars Science Laboratory recent successful landing on Mars, the new Mars exploration program is undoubtedly very exciting announcement.

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