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NASA Announces Science Instruments for Mars 2020 Rover Expedition to the Red Planet
universetoday.com ^ | July 31, 2014 | Ken Kremer

Posted on 07/31/2014 5:44:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The 2020 rover’s instruments goals are to search for signs of organic molecules and past life and help pave the way for future human explorers.

Seven carefully-selected payloads were chosen from a total of 58 proposals received in January 2014 from science teams worldwide, which is twice the usual number for instrument competitions and demonstrates the extraordinary interest in Mars by the science community.

The 2020 rover architecture is based on NASA’s hugely successful Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover which safely touched down a one ton mass on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012 using the nail-biting and never before used skycrane rocket assisted descent system.

The seven instruments will conduct unprecedented science and technology investigations on the Red Planet that’s aimed or the first time at simultaneously advancing both NASA’s unmanned robotic exploration searching for extraterrestrial life and plans for human missions to Mars in the 2030’s.

(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: kenyanbornmuzzie; mars; nasa; panspermia; spaceexploration

An artist concept image of where seven carefully-selected instruments will be located on NASA’s Mars 2020 rover. The instruments will conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations on the Red Planet as never before. Image Credit: NASA


1 posted on 07/31/2014 5:44:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
I don't see the MuzzieCam, nor the flag of interplanetary Jihad.

Is NASA on task or not?

2 posted on 07/31/2014 5:50:08 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: BenLurkin

Thanks!


3 posted on 07/31/2014 5:50:19 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: BenLurkin
Well, somebody's got to do it!

Wiki has since deleted most of this.

Sheila Jackson Lee
Member of the U.S. House
of Representatives
from Texas's 18th district

On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]

Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee#Political_career

4 posted on 07/31/2014 5:55:27 PM PDT by ETL 2
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To: BenLurkin

I notice a lack of particle cannon and pocket nukes.
How will we subjugate the red planet without them?


5 posted on 07/31/2014 6:12:38 PM PDT by Darksheare (I don't have a copy. one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

Viruses.


6 posted on 07/31/2014 6:13:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Unfortunately, they loaded it with “stuxnet” and “bubbleboy” thinking that would kill the red planet.


7 posted on 07/31/2014 6:15:18 PM PDT by Darksheare (I don't have a copy. one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: BenLurkin

Where’s Sheila Jackson Lee’s compartment?


8 posted on 07/31/2014 6:32:52 PM PDT by bgill
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To: BenLurkin
From the article:

The seven instruments will conduct unprecedented science and technology investigations on the Red Planet that’s aimed or the first time at simultaneously advancing both NASA’s unmanned robotic exploration searching for extraterrestrial life and plans for human missions to Mars in the 2030’s.

The instruments will have the capability to detect low levels of organic molecules that are essential precursors to life.

There is no bigger science rah-rah than myself, but I thought that the Curiosity rover had "instruments with the capability to detect low levels of organic molecules that are essential precursors to life."

9 posted on 07/31/2014 6:44:54 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: BenLurkin

Microphone ?


10 posted on 07/31/2014 7:05:15 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Darksheare

I think it has the awesome space modulator weapon! Mars for Martians all Yanquis out!


11 posted on 07/31/2014 7:17:55 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
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To: BenLurkin; KevinDavis; annie laurie; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...

Thanks BenLurkin. Extra to X-Planets and APoD.

http://www.gillevin.com/

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://mars.spherix.com/gvl.htm

http://pages.jh.edu/~jhumag/1102web/sweet.html

https://www.google.com/search?q=tagatose

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.icamsr.org/mtlp_chap9.html


12 posted on 07/31/2014 8:03:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: BenLurkin

I would like to live long enough to see the first manned mission to Mars. Hopefully the Chinese will share what they find.


13 posted on 07/31/2014 8:26:17 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: BenLurkin

Just not quite enough instrumentation to not justify the 20 Billion dollar 2030 lander though i imagine...


14 posted on 08/01/2014 2:07:57 PM PDT by mowowie
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