NASA scientists have found the perfect place for landing on Mars
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it's possible that we now know in what point of Mars is to send astronauts
for quite some time wants to reach the red Planet's surface. But in order to do this one desire is not enough. Besides the obvious things like the availability of affordable technologies, trained team of astronauts, and so forth, one of the main issues: «where are they going to fly?». Because Mars is very big and for the first colonists have to choose the perfect place to land. And, it seems, scientists from NASA such a place recently found.
Where on Mars to land the spaceship?
As reported , a group of experts NASA have discovered a vast area of Mars, where ice is almost on the surface of the planet. This can be ideal for landing astronauts, as any crew that will land on the red Planet, will have to mine the resources, and water is one of them, perhaps the most important.
Bring your water from Earth would be incredibly expensive — said in an interview with Business Insider paleontologist NASA Sylvain Piquet, who led the study. If you take the place on the ship for resources, it simply will not remain for equipment. Therefore, it is important to get on the planet as much as possible.
On the other hand, it is known that beneath the surface there is the ice. And planning major operations for drilling within any space mission also requires special equipment, and this means that need to run extra fuel. In addition, digging on Mars is difficult, and found that thermal probe InSight lander when he started trying to do it earlier this year.
Mars has a lot of surface water ice at its poles. But these poles — not the best place to send astronauts as they freeze and shrouded in darkness for six months. NASA wants to land astronauts at the point near the equator of the planet, because it is too warm for the existence of ice. Unlike Earth, Mars does not have a dense enough atmosphere to hold liquid water. When the ice gets too warm, the water simply evaporates.
The Most important part of our work is that we found the ice in the middle latitudes. We knew that in these latitudes there is potentially ice, but we also thought that it would be located much deeper.
District with abundant (and thus relatively affordable) deposits of ice
Scientists believe that this ice could have formed as the result of ancient snowfall, followed by a dust storm, quickly swept the snow. This thin layer helped to keep the water frozen for billions of years. And you believe that humanity will reach the surface of Mars in the near future? Write your opinion in our .
Now that NASA researchers have pinpointed the area with abundant water resources, they can begin to explore the potential of landing in it. In the near future, experts will be looking for a more specific place that will be safe for landing of people and will give maximum opportunities to explore the surface of Mars and organization .
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