NASA Announces Landing Site For Mars 2020 Rover Written 20 November 2018

The New York Times reports that NASA announced that its next Mars rover “will search the Jezero Crater and delta for the chemical building blocks of life and other signs of past microbes.” The rover, “scheduled to launch in July 2020, will largely be a clone of NASA’s Curiosity rover, which is currently exploring Mars.” The explorer will carry a “new set of instruments geared to searching for the carbon building blocks of life and other signs of past microbes.” After launch, the rover is expected to arrive on Mars around February 2021. The Jezero Crater was chosen from four finalists and 64 proposed landing sites. NASA Project Scientist Kennedy Farley explained Monday that the crater was once a lake, which on Earth “are both very habitable and inevitably inhabited. So that’s the first attraction.” Farley added that a “delta is extremely good at preserving biosignatures, any evidence of life that might have existed.” 
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