2012 Mars probes compete for funds
AUG 02, 2006
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.020316
Rocky Mountain News : NASA has received more than 20 proposals for funding the next set of Mars Scout missions. Each mission must cost under $475 million and help answer basic questions about the climate and geology of Mars, or help determine whether life ever existed there. Sone of the proposals include robotic airplanes, a spacecraft that fires copper balls into the planet from orbit to make craters, and a return sample mission. A winner will be announced in January 2008, and the spacecraft must launch by Jan. 31, 2012, said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA’s Mars exploration program. Read :
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