For this 48th episode of Sixième Science, the science podcast of Sciences et Avenir and 20 minutes tells you all about the Red Planet and the Martian missions.
For this 48e episode of Sixth Science, the science podcast of Science and the Future and 20 minutes tells you all about the Red Planet and the Martian missions. Are you suffocating within your 10 kilometer radius? Heading to Mars, the fourth planet in the Solar System. For this trip, no certificate is needed. The trip is proposed through . In the rocket, you will not be alone, but with Franck Daninos, journalist specializing in fundamental science at Sciences and the Future, and Romain Gouloumès from 20 minutes.
Find traces of ancient life on Mars
Both tell you everything about the rockets, rovers and other space vehicles which must in the months and years to come tread on its famous red soil, rich in iron oxide. Unless you live in a cave, you probably have not escaped the space news of recent weeks and the spectacular photos taken by Perseverance, the US space agency’s rover, just arrived in the area on February 18, 2021.
Explicit purpose of this mission : find traces of ancient life on the famous and distant Red Planet, by collecting for at least two years up to thirty rock samples. But did you know only microphones on board by Perseverance, and manufactured in France by a team from the Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space (Isae-Supaero) in Toulouse, were intended to tune the planet?
“A relaunch from Mars, never achieved, which poses immense technological challenges”
Another mission, she planned in 2026. A new probe, still sent by NASA, will deposit on the planet a mini-rocket and a rover designed by the European Space Agency (ESA). Objective this time: to get soil samples but then place them in a container that the rocket will propel into space for Earth. In practice, a first, “a relaunch from Mars, never carried out, which poses immense technological challenges”, as stated to Fra[…]
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