NASA has announced the building of a new lab to study Martian rock samples found by Perseverance once they're back on Earth.
for how and where it will set up the new facility dedicated to inspecting those samples. These Martian rock samples are believed to hold valuable insight into the Red Planet’s past, perhaps even providing traces of ancient Martian life that can help us better understand how the planet has changed over its lifetime.The project has officially been dubbed the Mars Sample Receiving project, and NASA says it is “expected to be the most complex robotic space flight campaign ever attempted.
The new facility that will house the rock samples will be located at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and it will receive and curate these rocks as safely as possible. That last part there is extremely important to note, as many are concerned about the possible diseases or dangerousAs such, NASA says it is taking extreme precautions to ensure that nothing like that can get free.
If they do, it will finally give us more proof that Mars wasn’t always a freezing wasteland of a planet, furthering beliefs that it could have once been home to liquid water and perhaps even alien life of some kind.
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