NASA finally admits they will be hunting for aliens on Mars using the Mars Rover 2020. Will NASA find extraterrestrials on Mars, and more importantly, will they finally admit that aliens really do exist?

The acting associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, Geoffrey Yoder, weighs in on the Mars Rover mission.

”The Mars 2020 rover is the first step in a potential multi-mission campaign to return carefully selected and sealed samples of Martian rocks and soil to Earth. This mission marks a significant milestone in NASA’s Journey to Mars – to determine whether life has ever existed on Mars, and to advance our goal of sending humans to the Red Planet.”

The first mission to be conducted by Mars Rover 2020 will be to investigate Martian resources, such as oxygen, to see if it will be available for human missions. Specimens from Mars will be used here on Earth to analyze whether or not life existed on Mars in the past. These specimens will also be used to determine any possible health hazards that could cause trouble for future human missions.

The Mars Rover 2020 will have a coring drill to take soil and rock samples, which will be used as test samples. There are two science instruments on the Mars Rover that will determine where to collect samples. The instruments will analyze mineral, chemical, and characteristics of the rocks on Mars.

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Although the Rover has many similar characteristics as the Curiosity, the Rover has the ability to land in more rugged sites with more challenging terrain. Allen Chen describes the difference between the Curiosity’s landing and the Mars Rover 2020 landing.

“By adding what’s known as range trigger, we can specify where we want the parachute to open, not just at what velocity we want it to open. That shrinks our landing area by nearly half.”

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The Mars Rover will video and record sound, so we will finally be able to view a never-before-seen or heard landing in Mars. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) assistant flight system manager, David Gruel, is excited for this first Mars Rover mission.

“Nobody has ever seen what a parachute looks like as it is opening in the Martian atmosphere. So this will provide valuable engineering information.”

This is the first step to send humans to Mars, which President Obama said he would like to do in the 2030s.

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“So, we’ll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. By the mid-2030s, I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to earth, and a landing on Mars will follow.”

A professor of geological sciences at Brown University in Providence and chairman of the Science Definition Team, Jack Mustard, reveals that the Mars Rover will hopefully provide us answers about extraterrestrial life.

“The Mars 2020 mission concept does not presume that life ever existed on Mars. However, given the recent Curiosity findings, past Martian life seems possible and we should begin the difficult endeavor of seeking the signs of life. No matter what we learn, we would make significant progress in understanding the circumstances of early life existing on Earth and the possibilities of extraterrestrial life.”

NASA’s Mars Rover team is composed of 19 engineers and scientists. They plan on accomplishing several goals in order to accomplish sending humans to Mars by the 2030s.

The question is, will NASA ever truly admit to extraterrestrial life on Mars? Just a week ago on July 9, NASA was once again accused of shutting down ISS Live Cam after what appeared to be a UFO appeared. Conspiracy theorists say it was a large UFO that was recorded on ISS Live Cam entering the Earth.

The UFO YouTube channel Streetcap1 claims that the camera turned off as the mysterious object appeared to stop.

“What made it interesting was that the camera cut off when the UFO seemed to stop.”

Take a look at it for yourself here. If NASA will cut the footage each time a mysterious object appears on ISS Live Cam, it seems quite unlikely that they will ever reveal extraterrestrial existence. It will be interesting to see what the Mars Rover 2020 will reveal.

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