It seems that we will soon find out whether or not Mars is
inhabited by native organisms. Europe’s alien hunting lander is due to
touch down on the surface of Mars on October 19.
Called the Schiaparelli, this litter rover has ONE mission: To pave
the way for future missions that will seek to find out if there are
aliens on Mars. No matter how small, the ExoMars mission will explore
the red planet and see if it is inhabited, or was in the distant past.
The Schiaparelli lander will help the ExoMars Rover, a fancy,
high-tech laboratory with a number of life seeking instruments –which
will begin its journey towards Mars in 2020— explore the red planet in
hopes of finding Aliens.
The spacecraft carrying the Schiaparelli was launched on March 14 and
has travelled nearly 500 million kilometers across our inner solar
system to reach Mars.
As it arrives at Mars, it will deploy a small lander – Schiaparelli —
which will eventually help us sniff out whether or not there is life on
Mars.
