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NASA rethinks its Mars strategy
By Leonard David|March 2022
A chorus of scientists wants NASA to add small robotic spacecraft to its Mars Exploration Program in a shift from today’s near-total focus on multibillion-dollar rover missions and preparations with Europe to return samples of Martian soil and rocks to Earth. Will these scientists get their way? Leonard David looks at the odds.
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Despite NASA’s best efforts over the decades, Mars remains largely enigmatic. No proof has been discovered that life of some form once existed on the planet or that it still does, although there is tantalizing evidence for those possibilities. Meanwhile, NASA is outspoken in its desire to send astronauts to Mars, and Elon Musk has vowed to colonize the planet, even if scientists caution that they don’t yet have sufficient knowledge about Mars to guide such endeavors.
It’s in that context that NASA has begun collecting advice from scientists about how to renovate the agency’s Mars program, an effort that includes welcoming a fresh look at the size and kind of spacecraft that should be sent how often and to which regions.
To date, NASA’s Mars E
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Introduction
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“Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.”
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Once the exclusive province of science fiction stories and films, the subject of space colonization has rapidly moved several steps closer to becoming a reality thanks to major advances in rocket propulsion and design, astronautics and astrophysics, robotics and medicine. The urgency to establish humanity as a multi-planet species has been re-validated by the emergence of a worldwide pandemic, one of several reasons including both natural and man-made catastrophes long espoused in the pro-colonization rhetoric.
The long-term habitation of the International Space Station by rotating teams of astronauts, scient