«Humans were required to carry out much of the experimentation in this study, while
life detection missions on other planets will need to be robotic,» says Dr Goordial.
The twin Viking landers of 1976 were NASA's first
life detection mission, and although the results from the experiments failed to detect life in the Martian regolith, and resulted in a long period with fewer Mars missions, it was not the end of the fascination that the Astrobiology science community had for the red planet.
Not exact matches
And while Curiosity's
mission does not include
life detection, the rover is expected to unearth clues about the habitability of the environments on the Red Planet, said John Grotzinger, MSL project scientist at JPL.
Such traces can be used to provide a «Field Guide to Unknown Organisms» for developing
life detection space
missions can also provide the basis for future human habitations on other planets.
The major aspect of their work is to test out
life -
detection instruments that will be used on future
missions to Mars.
«If NASA spent $ 5 billion on a
life -
detection mission and discovered
life from Earth, then the loss of public trust would really shoot up,» said Linda Billings, a researcher at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
In a statement, NASA said that the scientists behind the report were «tasked with developing a
life -
detection strategy, a first for a NASA
mission since the Mars Viking
mission era more than four decades ago.»
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