After Curiosity's Success, NASA Announces New Plans For The Red Planet
In the month of August, Curiosity #-Link-Snipped-#, #-Link-Snipped-# and #-Link-Snipped-# to #-Link-Snipped-#. Thanks to its encouraging response NASA has chalked out a multi-year program that extends for a decade and culminates in the year 2020 with a new Mars robotic science rover. Let’s have a look at the list of projects that NASA plans to undertake in the following years:
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has stated that “The Obama administration is committed to a robust Mars exploration programâ€. Considering the president’s challenge of sending humans to Mars orbit in the year 2030, the 2020 mission of the new Mars robotic science rover is being considered an important step forward.
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[*]New Curiosity and Opportunity rovers
[*]Launch of Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter in the year 2012 to study the upper atmosphere of Mars
[*]Interior exploration by using Seismic Investigations
[*]Obtaining a insight to the deep interior of Mars by Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission
[*]Providing “Electra†telecommunication radios for ESA’s 2016 ExoMars mission and critical component for the astrobiology instrument to be present in the 2018 ExoMars rover
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has stated that “The Obama administration is committed to a robust Mars exploration programâ€. Considering the president’s challenge of sending humans to Mars orbit in the year 2030, the 2020 mission of the new Mars robotic science rover is being considered an important step forward.
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