... NASA Curiosity rover such as habitable environments on Mars, large lakes in the distant past, and sporadic releases of methane have greatly increased the chance of finding evidence that life in the form of micro-organisms might have...
...; and CarbonSat2—a proposed 3 to 5 year mission—that will measure global atmospheric amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4 ) with high spatial resolution and coverage1, which can be used to improve existing atmospheric computer models...
... crew. Teleoperations and telepresence are used to interact with rocket-propelled airplanes that target the source methane emissions on Mars, rovers on the surface and the robotic Mars Ascent Vehicles that bring samples up to Phobos...
... range will allow detections of all the expected atmospheric gases, including water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulphide, as well as exotic metallic compounds such as titanium monoxide, vanadium monoxide...
... with a high hydrogen content, the best being liquid hydrogen, then water, plastics and perhaps liquid methane. Neutrons are particularly hard to stop because, being chargeless, they are not affected by electromagnetic fields generated...
... polar caps. This is also taking into account that all of the hydrogen is linked to oxygen, which is unlikely as methane has also been detected on Mars and might be trapped in the polar caps along with CO2. If this...