NASA will give the opportunity to know Mars, Rover landing will be telecast live
If you can't pay the big amount for spending time in International Space Station, then NASA is giving you the opportunity to witness the planet Mars closely.
Everyone is curious to know about space. Our universe is so vast and fascinating that it is not so easy to know its mysteries. Yet many people dream about visiting space once. This dream of many of us can now become true because NASA is going to open the International Space Station for tourists in the next few years.
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To spend time in the International Space Station, people will have to pay a lot of money. But NASA is now going to make such arrangements that people will be able to see and know about Mars. For this, the American space agency NASA has installed a webcam in its rover, which is set to launch in the year 2020, through which people from all over the world will see the live landing of Rover. This move from NASA will tell people how engineers and technicians in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) accomplish their work before launch.
In JPL, Project Manager of the Mars Mission, John McNeime said, "The preparations for the mission are going on very well. Personally, I am already happy to join this mission and now people from all over the world will be able to join the mission of the Red Planet and see our progress." He said that for the people it is not less than a golden opportunity. If a person needs any information about the rover, then JPL will be able to get it through a web chat from the social media team.
According to NASA, after the completion of making the rover, it will be launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in July 2020. This rover will reach Mars on February 18, 2021. There, the rover will look for signs of the living conditions and collect the surface samples of the planet.
Passengers will be sent from capsules and starliners
NASA's financial officer Jeff Davit had said that NASA will open the International Space Station for various commercial purposes, including space tourism, and every year the mission of two small private space travels will be kept in terms of tourism. Each mission will be for 30 days and every year about a dozen tourists will be able to visit ISS. Passengers will be sent from NASA's Crew Dragon Capsule of SpaceX and Starliner aircraft of Boeing.
Mission of Mars Rover Curiosity continues
NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover campaign is still in action. In the past, this rover had discovered the largest reservoir of mud of minerals on Mars. Curiosity rover will now explore these minerals and find out if there were suitable conditions for life there billions of years ago. Smooth clay is often formed from water. In such cases, scientists estimate that life could have existed at sometime. According to NASA, the mission of Curiosity Mars Rover is still in progress. There is possibility that we soon become witnesses of many other new discoveries.
Opportunity rover's special role
Earlier, NASA's Opportunity Rover used to bring new information from Mars to scientists. For 15 years, this rover lived on Mars and sent several useful information to the Earth, and after a sandy storm there, its contact with NASA was broken. After some time NASA declared the Opportunity Rover dead.
Images and videos credit: NASA/JPL
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