Scientists find parking on Mars – The Time (Ecuador)

Labor. Prepare landing in 2019.

Paris, EFE

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced point where land on Mars in January 2019 ExoMars spacecraft, scientific adventure that evolves with the Russian Roscosmos to find traces of life on the surface of the ‘Red Planet’.

The Martian parking is Oxia Planum region, where it should land the rover, ESA said in a statement, in which he recalled that the ExoMars mission will take off in January 2016 and arrive at Mars nine months .

In 2018 intended to eject the module cover part of the Martian surface, called Schiaparelli, which is expected to reach its destination in January 2019.

“Schiaparelli land in a region known as Meridiani Planum. TGO remain in orbit to study the Martian atmosphere and to relay the data you send the mission” from the surface of the planet, the ESA said.

The main objective of the exploration vehicle, you can take samples of up to two meters deep, is to seek tests existence of life on Mars, past or present, in a region where water abound at some point in its history.

“By studying the subsoil, the mission is more likely to find biosignatures in good condition, “the European Space Agency.

Scientists believe that life may have surface Mars more than 3,600 million years ago, when conditions were much wetter. Sediment deposits hidden underground or recently exhumed offer a unique to this important period of the history of Mars window, ESA said.

The module Schiaparelli will have the mission to collect samples along a 2-kilometer journey made during the 218-day Mars mission last (each with a duration of 24 hours and 37 minutes).