ExoMars 2016

Europ is ready to carry out their last change is the spy: land in Mart. The next Monday, a Russian rocket will take off to start the important spy mission more beyond Earth orbit that has never realised the European Space Agency (ESA). This mission is the first part of ExoMars project wich aims to search for life on Mars. 

The fact of sending a rocket to Mart suppose a huge deployment of technology. Until then both USA and Russia are the only ones able to land on Mars. The problem is the thin atmosphere of the planet. But the next ESA mission will try a new lander wich has been designed particularly to the enter in Mart. In addition, this new vehicle will try more kinds of landing as well as parachute, a heat shield and also retros.

The new ESA mission will be realized in collaboration with Rusia and with the rocket will also travel a satellite to study the gases. One of the biggest secrets of the red planet is the presence of methane gas in the atmosphere. In Erth, this gas is a signal of life and because of that one of the main objectives of the satellite will be analyse the atmosphere. According to the experts of the mission, the capacity of this satellite is such that will mark whether it is worthwhile or not to continue the search for life on Mars. Another instrument that will travel in the rocket next Monday is a machine to search for underground ice water.

The mission will take three months to reach the planet. This is the first time that different objectives are combined in a single mission. And this is what makes the mission more complicated. ExoMars 2016 will help to determinate where could land the future mission that Europe will throw in 2018 if is possible a place with water where we can find life on Mars. The final decision about the right place to land will be take on 2017. 

Personally, this is a kind of theme I really like and I really enjoy to read in news, too. I tink that one of the fields with more future forecasts is the field of astronomy. In the last years, we have made important advances and the fast progress and improvement of technology are allowing us to enlarge our expectations and also our possibilities. A few years ago we were asking ourselves if it would be possible to reach the moon and now we are seriously considering the possibility to find live on other planets, what will be the next?