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Science Team Outlines Goals for NASA's 2020 Mars Rover


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NASA 2020 Mars rover

Planning for NASA's 2020 Mars rover envisions a basic structure that capitalizes on re-using the design and engineering work done for the NASA rover Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012, but with new science instruments selected through competition for

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 should look for signs of past life, collect samples for possible future return to Earth, and demonstrate technology for future human exploration of the Red Planet, according to a report provided to the agency.

From Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
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