{"id":25947,"date":"2020-07-30T06:27:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T06:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=25947"},"modified":"2020-07-30T06:27:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T06:27:47","slug":"nasa-set-to-launch-robotic-rover-to-seek-signs-of-past-martian-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/nasa-set-to-launch-robotic-rover-to-seek-signs-of-past-martian-life\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA set to launch robotic rover to seek signs of past Martian life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NASA is set to launch an ambitious mission to Mars with the liftoff of its next-generation Perseverance rover, a six-wheeled robot tasked with deploying a mini helicopter, testing out equipment for future human missions and searching for traces of past Martian life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The $2.4 billion mission, slated for liftoff at 7:50 a.m. ET (1150 GMT) from Florida&#8217;s Cape Canaveral, is planned as the U.S. space agency&#8217;s ninth trek to the Martian surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United Arab Emirates and China separately this month launched probes to Mars in displays of their own technological prowess and ambition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rover will attempt for the first time to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth, collecting materials in cigar-sized capsules and leaving them scattered on the surface for retrieval by a future &#8220;fetch&#8221; rover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That conceptual rover is expected to launch the samples back into space to link up with other spacecraft for an eventual Earth homecoming around 2031.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States has plans to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030s under its Artemis program, which envisions using a return to the moon as a testing platform for human missions before making the bigger leap to Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is set to launch an ambitious mission to Mars with the liftoff of its next-generation Perseverance rover, a six-wheeled robot tasked with deploying a mini helicopter, testing out equipment for future human missions and searching for traces of past Martian life. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The $2.4 billion mission, slated for liftoff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":25948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175],"tags":[741],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-25947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-july-2020","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25949,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25947\/revisions\/25949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25947"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=25947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}