The coming years promise to be excellent in terms of space exploration.
We will return to the moon and fly to Mars for the first time, and we will thoroughly examine its moons, which may hold more interesting news about the history of the Red Planet than the planet itself.
At least that's what scientists from Germany, France and Japan are preparing a mission called Martian Moons Exploration (MMX). The most important aspect of all recent space probe missions to Mars has been trying to understand the violent events that took place on the planet some 3.7 billion years ago.
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Well, then, in an unclear way to us, it lost its thick atmosphere.
The Japanese believe that the answer to this question may not lie on Mars itself, but on its moons, and this is a very good step.
Perhaps not many of us are aware of the fact that we have learned a lot about the Earth by studying the nearby space and the surface of the Moon.
Scientists believe that Phobos and Deimos are asteroids captured by the Red Planet, but it is also possible that they are the remnants of a Mars collision with another massive object. The MMX mission will consist of sending a probe, probe and rover there.
The latter will take rock material from Phobos for further analysis.
The mission of the 25-kilogram rover is to last 3 months.
The launch is expected to take place as early as 2024, and the operation is expected to cost around $ 241 million. The robot is currently being tested at the German Space Agency (DLR) laboratories in Bremen.
The rover measures 47.5 x 55 x 27.5 centimeters, is equipped with four wheels and solar panels, which are to provide energy for the planned tasks.
The construction of the rover is not easy.
Extreme conditions prevail on the moons of Mars.
The temperature there varies between minus 150 degrees Celsius and plus 50 degrees Celsius.