Tuesday, June 12, 2007





Design boost for European rover

The vehicle, expected to land in September 2014, would be equipped with a 16.5kg package of instruments to search for past or present life.


Key term: "present life," which it just might find. (Despite NASA's justification for its Mars program as the "search for life," it hasn't actually looked for any since the 1970s.)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Despite NASA's justification for its Mars program as the "search for life," it hasn't actually looked for any since the 1970s.

And when it plausibly found some, NASA did its best to run away from the discovery.

Presumably this new Mars Rover will be equipped with an even more efficient and equally aptly-named rock abrasion tool (RAT) with which to destroy putative fossils immediateley upon discovery!

--WMB as Anon