Istnieje potencjalnie możliwość pozyskania próbek z Marsa
Mission set to blast off for Mars to grab a piece of its moon2 hours ago
(...) Once on the surface, it will deploy a robotic arm and two samplers to grab some moon dust.
This material will be packed into a small capsule that will return to Earth in 2031, landing in the Woomera desert of South Australia.
The amount of material that will come back is tiny - just 10g.
"It's a very small [amount] actually," said Dr Chrysa Avdellidou, from Leicester University, who is working with the Japanese mission.
"However we can do several studies even on individual grains… You don't need to have kilos back from a surface in order to do science. So it's worth every gram," she said. (...)
"One of the really exciting things is that Phobos is so close to the Mars surface that whenever there's an impact into the Mars surface, little grains might actually become implanted into Phobos itself," said Russell.
"And that means that the sample we get back may actually contain grains of Mars as well. So it can give us really direct information about the composition and history of Mars." (...)
China is planning its own sampling mission to Mars, set to launch in 2028. It will attempt to return Martian material to Earth in 2031.
We do already have some fragments of the Red Planet here on Earth in the form of Martian meteorites.
These are pieces of Mars that were blasted off the surface by asteroid strikes, and ended up being hurled towards the Earth.
Martian meteorites are extremely rare, but like all space rocks that fall to our planet, they become contaminated as soon as they get here, mixing with the air, dust, soil and water. (...)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmvgxvkv54w1oMMX factsheethttps://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/MMX_factsheetMission overviewhttps://www.mmx.jaxa.jp/en/mission/
Wątek: Artykuły o MMX (Martian Moon eXploration) (Przeczytany 30 razy)