What news from the planet Mars?
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Cover of the book "Latest news from Mars", by Francis Rocard.
Flammarion
By: Caroline Lachowsky
2 min
What news from Mars?
While the Rovers and other robots continue their exploration of the red planet, new private actors dream of sending men there.
How far will the Martian dream take us?
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Let us ask ourselves all the possible and imaginable questions on Mars, starting with the most fundamental: that of extraterrestrial life.
Did life also appear on Mars and in what forms can it be found?
Tracks of answers expected thanks to the new Rover of the Mars 2020 mission of the NASA (which bears its apt name Perseverance) and which should take off this summer, bound for the Jezero crater to search in this former delta of river and Martian lake, traces of past life, and this is a first!
Bring back samples in order not only to study them but also to prepare a possible human trip to Mars ...
Why do you want to send humans there at all costs, and especially how?
Why is this Martian dream, the Promethean dream of putting a man's (or woman's) foot on Mars still, if not more than ever, relevant today?
There is reason to wonder about this spatial ambition, given the colossal challenge (both technological, scientific and financial, but also ethical and human) raised by this mission of the century.
How to manage to send men to Mars and especially how to bring them back?
With
Francis Rocard
, astrophysicist.
Since 1989, he has been responsible for the solar system exploration program at the National Center for Space Studies (CNES).
His new book,
Latest News from Mar
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has just been published by Flammarion.
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