NASA Mars 2020 Rover Mission: NASA To Determine Landing Sites for Mars Rover

After Mars Rover and Curiosity, NASA plans to send a new Mars Rover so that they can analyze the biological footprint and the best part about NASA's 2020 mission is that the Rover to glide back to Earth to tell the story of the Red Planet.

In an attempt to discover the Universe and how Earth and other celestials bodies formed, NASA has been experimenting with Mars planet for a long time now and coincidently it has received success. The NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission is on and it will have only eight high-priority sites unlike the former lists of 54 locations as per stated by Michael Meyer who is a lead scientist working for NASA's Mars Exploration Program.

Space.com issued an article stating the What? the How? the When? and everything related to the upcoming Mars mission. NASA has sent numerous rovers and instruments on Mars at various locations on the planet with different but interrelated objectives. However, for the upcoming Mars 2020 mission, the scientists at NASA are experimenting to land their rover in a location where they can find ancient life footprints and especially traces of water.

NASA will deploy high-resolution imagery from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to analyze landing spots which will help to determine potential landing sites for Mars 2020 Mission as well for potential Human expeditions. In August 2015, NASA conducted a workshop to narrow its searching for potential landing spots which will see its second workshop in February 2017 when scientists from the science community will gather in NASA's site selection process in San Francisco.NASA has always facilitated young talent and hence, the upcoming workshop will have Alex Longo who has proposed landing sites on Mars. A scientist from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Bethany Uhlmann will also join the community for the workshop.

A Short video prepared by Jet Propulsion Laboratory signifies the upcoming NASA's Mars 2020 Mission. The Mission is set to search for traces of water, ancient past by picking up evidence of layers of soil and then the Rover will travel back to Earth. It will pave the way for future Human exploration on the red planet.

NASA will set up a semi-permanent based on 60-mile radius for exploration and after the workshop is over, the location will be selected.