NASA will attempt to lower a probe onto the surface of Mars for the first time as it continues its search for signs of life on the red planet, The Telegraph reported on Tuesday.
The new approach to landing a rover on the planet, to be attempted in August, will involve winching it slowly to the surface using nylon ropes attached to a spacecraft overhead.
Once the probe, named Curiosity, has safely reached the ground the 25 feet-long cords will be cut and the parent ship will use rockets to fire itself well away from the probe for a crash landing.
But NASA experts admitted the project, which will come to a head during the attempted landing on August 6, is a gamble which could prove to be a 1.7 billion pounds ($2.5 billion) disaster.
Keywords: Mars mission, NASA, Curiosity rover
Recently I had an opportunity to visit NASA's John F.Kennedy Space center at Florida.
Thousands of dedicated skilled professionals are working for the success of their Space program. They have achieved the unimaginable.
NASA will achieve in this Mars expedition also.
All our best wishes.
This is an ambitious project of NASA. If it succeeds, it will catapult
USA to a new class in space science.
Great and prestigious deal to NASA. Hope only success come in their way.
All the very best.
Hope the best for NASA team.
This is a very prestigious and great deal to NASA. I want to know more about it. I am very intrested in such things about space and more. This is gonna be a great one and hope success may achieved by NASA.
Let it be another milestone in the way of NASA. All the very best for NASA
engineers.
I am curious about the out come from this expedition. I understand that there have been many such expeditions costing billions of dollars. I could be totally wrong, but are the results of the expedition really worth the investment?
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