Why ExoMars mission is so important for society?

Has life ever existed on Mars? Despite the fact that humanity has sent more than a dozen spaceships to explore the Red Planet, the ExoMars mission will be the first mission in the history of mankind, which will be aimed at solving the existential question of whether life outside the Earth can exist.

The ExoMars mission is just more of a program of the European Space Agency and Roscosmos for the exploration of Mars. So, in 2016, specialists have already deployed the Schiaparelli landing module on the surface of the Red Planet and placed the tracer gas orbiter in orbit around this desert world. According to plans, ExoMars 2020 will be dedicated to the search for microbial life in the present or the past.

Like the portal, newatlas.com, if everything goes according to plan with the ExoMars mission, European Mars rovers and Russian scientific platforms will be found on the Red Planet, which will be sent to Mars after that. to slow down the descent.

Despite the fact that scientists had more than 145 million kilometers of the surface of Mars, the researchers decided to land the ExoMars 2020 mission in a geologically diverse place with convincing evidence of the presence of water in the past. An ideal place for landing the rover was the area called Oxia Planum, located near the equator. It is expected that the launch of the ExoMars 2020 mission will occur in July or August next year, after which the spacecraft will spend 9 months on the way to the Red Planet. Due to the fact that the 20th years of our century will be marked not only by the launch of a mission from ESA, but also by the commissioning of Mars rovers from NASA and the Chinese project Mars 2020, subject to the success of these projects, we can learn much more about the Red Planet than ever before in the history of mankind.

References – newatlas.com
Written by Antoniuk Tymofii