Scientists have developed a small size lab for a Mars rover that will drill beneath the surface of the red planet and look for signs of past or present life.
The tiny chemistry lab named the Mars Organic Molecule Analyser (MOMA) is a key instrument on the ExoMars Rover, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Russian space agency Roscosmos, with a significant contribution to MOMA from NASA.
It will be launched toward the Mars in July 2020.
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“The ExoMars Rover’s two-meter deep drill will provide MOMA with unique samples that may contain complex organic compounds preserved from an ancient era when life might have gotten started on Mars,” said Will Brinckerhoff, project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in the US.
This evidence includes features that resemble dry riverbeds and mineral deposits that only form in the presence of liquid water.
NASA has dispatch rovers to Mars that have intercepted additional signs of past habitable environments.
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