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"ready to begin seeking the signs of past life." This is a brilliant engineering feat but I don't agree with the premise of that statement. This is NASA's own
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"ready to begin seeking the signs of past life."
This is a brilliant engineering feat but I don't agree with the premise of that statement.
This is NASA's own mission statement:
"The goal of the Mars Exploration Program is to explore Mars and to provide a continuous flow of scientific information and discovery through a carefully selected series of robotic orbiters, landers and mobile laboratories interconnected by a high-bandwidth Mars/Earth communications network."
- wobblykiwi 6y agoWhat you're saying isn't quite true. Perseverance's mission IS to find signs of past life. See: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/science/goals/ https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/science/goals/
- 93po 6y agoThe latter sounds like politically correct wordiness to not piss off the large amount of the planet that believes in intelligent design
- sandos 6y agoIve always wondered about this "obsession" with finding life specifically. For some reason I find it unlikely we will find life, and I'm probably wrong. But I also get the feeling from the missions that unless there have been life, there is no reason to go to Mars. I mean there are so many reasons to go there even if we never find signs of life.