Fire missiles at Mars to find life

• Autores: Jacob Aron
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2968, 2014, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A non-profit group has proposed a mission that involves showering Mars with bunker-busting missiles that would penetrate deep into the ground but deliver probes, not warheads. On Mars, preserved traces of microbes could lurk in deep subsurface ice, where they would be shielded from harsh cosmic radiation. NASA's Curiosity rover has a drill, but it only penetrates a few centimeters. That's why Explore Mars last week appealed for funds for a project called Exolance, which would scatter small, lightweight projectiles across the Red Planet. Each missile would carry scientific instruments and would keep in radio contact with Earth