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Mars is 140 million miles away, has 4.2-billion-year-old rivers, and is about to be visited by five different spacecraft. Humanity's plan for what to do when we get there is ___________.
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Mars.
Mars is 140 million miles away. We have a robot there. We found rivers. We collected samples no one is coming to pick up. And now we're sending a nuclear spacecraft.
§ 1 — Perseverance Rover
A Five-Year-Old Robot Just Rewrote Mars History. Again.
Perseverance made its most significant discovery yet: evidence of a 4.2-billion-year-old buried river delta system approximately 35 meters below the Martian surface. This extends Mars's potential habitability window by 500 million years.
The Mars Sample Return program has been canceled. The samples remain on Mars in titanium tubes with no confirmed ride home. They represent the most scientifically valuable material ever prepared for return to Earth.
SR-1 Freedom — the first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft since the 1960s — launches December 2028 with three Ingenuity-class helicopters. The maneuver involves dropping three autonomous helicopters into a Martian dust storm from a nuclear spacecraft.
The Rosalind Franklin rover (ESA) launches in 2028, arriving 2030. It will drill 2 meters below the Martian surface — deeper than any previous rover — looking for signs of life.
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Tap a white card to fill the blank. Click a filled blank to clear it.
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“Drill six feet under and see what happens.”
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“Keep texting until it responds.”
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“Wait for China to go first and see if anything eats them.”
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