“It is an extraordinary goal: to go and look for past life forms. The last mission that wanted to achieve similar results was Viking, in 1975. At the time the knowledge was not what it is now, some elements were also found but it was not possible to understand what it was. Then came the Curiosity rover which in 2012 found organic compounds in the Martian soil, but the instrument that was supposed to detect them altered them during the warming process. With Perseverance we will have the possibility of not altering anything. The other big, important news is that this time we will select samples that will be brought to Earth “: Teresa Fornaro speaks of the Red Planet with the same naturalness of those who describe the home environment. The thirty-two year old from Brusciano works in Florence at the Arcetri Inaf observatory, the National Institute of Astrophysics, and is the only Italian to be part of the team of 13 experts of the NASA program. The images that he will have to process come from Mars directly to his home in Castello di Cisterna, a stone’s throw from Brusciano, where he looks after his children, two 5-month-old twins.
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