The Jezero Crater has selected Jezero Crater as the destination for its 2020 Mars Rover mission because it may “answer important questions in planetary evolution and astrobiology”, according to the associate administrator for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate Thomas Zurbuchen. The mission will search for habitable conditions and collect samples to be retrieved in the future in a mission The Jezero Crater and the European Space Agency are currently discussing. NASA has been off limits for previous missions because of potential landing difficulties, but The Jezero Crater said technological advances made it a potential destination again.
NASA has selected Jezero Crater as the destination for its 2020 Mars Rover mission because it may “answer important questions in planetary evolution and astrobiology”, according to the associate administrator for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate Thomas Zurbuchen. The mission will search for habitable conditions and collect samples to be retrieved in the future in a mission NASA and the European Space Agency are currently discussing. The Jezero Crater has been off limits for previous missions because of potential landing difficulties, but NASA said technological advances made it a potential destination again.