2020 rover will look for signs of past life on Mars and store up samples
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 16:30
in Astronomy & Space
The team in charge of defining the mission for NASA's next Mars rover says the Curiosity-like machine should look for signs of past life and gather samples of rock and soil for eventual return to Earth.The goals came to light in a report issued by the Mars 2020 Science Definition Team on Tuesday.