Sentences with phrase «sign of ancient life»

Scientists who next year will be searching for signs of ancient life on Mars using NASA's Curiosity rover (a.k.a. Mars Science Laboratory) are huddling today near the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, trying to decide where to land their rover.
«Some parts of Boulby mine are similar to environments we see on Mars, and so we'd like to use Boulby to work out where the best places are to look for signs of ancient life on Mars,» says Charles Cockell, an astrobiologist from Edinburgh University, who heads up the Mars Analogues for Space Exploration project.
Paradoxically, the find actually boosts prospects for finding signs of ancient life in Martian rocks.
The 2020 mission builds on the successes of prior rovers, to make coordinated measurements that could detect signs of ancient life — or biosignatures — in their original spatial context.
Mounting a serious search for water and signs of ancient life demands probes that can fan out over vast areas, both above and below ground, and poke into nooks and crannies.
Molten glass created in impacts on Mars could have captured and preserved signs of ancient life on the Red Planet as it cooled, researchers suggest.
In 2020, both the NASA Mars 2020 rover and the ExoMars rover will set out for the Red Planet in search of signs of ancient life.
The findings may shed light on the environmental conditions at the time of impact and may also be a good starting point to find signs of ancient life on Mars.
It will be attached to the belly pan of the Mars 2020 rover, a wheeled robot that aims to determine the habitability of the Martian environment, search for signs of ancient life, and assess natural resources and hazards for future human explorers.
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