INDOZONE.ID – Researchers reveal land in Mars worth living in long term. That is, Earth creatures or humans may be able to live on the red planet.
Soil shows the presence of water because it has a neutral pH with minimal evaporation of water. Water in the area is said to have existed since about 3.8 billion ago.
It is known, since last September 2021, robot explorers Perserverance has been deployed on Mars.
The robot then scoops soil and some of the atmosphere on Mars into a titanium tube. Then, the material is stored to be used as research material by scientist on earth.
“The samples Perseverance collected will provide a key chronology for the formation of Jezero Crater,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
Thomas said bringing back samples from the Maras crater could provide certainty. Now NASA is on a Mars sample return mission with the European Space Agency.
“The public meeting will include a briefing on the status of the National Environmental Policy Act process for the proposed program, as well as its scientific goals and objectives,” NASA said in a statement on April 29.
Mars has a lot of radiation
Meanwhile, quoted from Sciencealert, explorers such as Curiosity and Perseverance in June had revealed new evidence that there is a lot of radiation that can harm humans on Mars.
The habitable part of Mars is at least 2 meters underground. This is because Mars, with its lack of a magnetic field and thin atmosphere, is associated with much higher doses of cosmic radiation on its surface.
Scientists say that cosmic radiation destroys amino acids.
“Current Mars rover missions are drilling to about 5 cm. At that depth, it only takes two years to completely destroy the amino acids. The addition of chlorate and water increases the rate of destruction of the amino acids even further,” said physicist Alexander Pavlov of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. .
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