For us, it's a big deal. We just doubled our probability of succeeding. |
I'm interested in exploring mid-latitude areas of Mars that look like they're made of snow and ice. |
In many areas of Mars' middle latitudes, we see tantalizing evidence of dust-covered layers of snow or ice. THOR will aim for this material. |
Instead of all our eggs and 10 years of work in one basket, we have a second vehicle and a much higher chance of success. |
It doesn't get any better than this. Having one there, one we're building and one we're planning for. |
It will be wild and crazy. |
It's completely self-sterilizing. We've made it through the first couple of rounds. |
It's getting to be a fairly old spacecraft and it's been having a number of issues; none of them are considered life-threatening, |
Maybe we can't afford not to have redundancy. |
The biggest dust storms don't usually begin until one or two months after perihelion, ... This one coming so early in the season makes me think Mars is heading for a spell of big dust storms. |
The biggest dust storms don't usually begin until one or two months after perihelion. This one coming so early in the season makes me think Mars is heading for a spell of big dust storms. |
The climate models predict that as the orbit of Mars evolves, the tilt of its spin axis changes. |
The idea is to look at Mars and not think of it as a mysterious alien place. |
The time has come to take Martian studies a step further?and deeper. |
We call them the mother lode of hematite, |