How Is Life on Mars?

In a decade and a half, man will be able to land on Mars. In the 2030s, the infrastructure necessary for such an expedition will be created, announced NASA Director Jim Bridenstein during a briefing according to the Agency’s website. The event was held after the successful arrival of the NASA Mars lander InSight on the Red Planet. The spacecraft weighing 385 kg had covered almost 480 million km in six months before landing on the flat plain of Elysium Planitia, following a calculated trajectory. Planitia is Latin for a flat surface, geometric plane or flatness or a plain. Elysium is from the ancient Greek name for an afterlife paradise.

The first messenger from Earth, which reported a soft landing on Mars, was launched by the Soviet Union back in 1971. True, it worked only for a quarter of a minute; and the pictures it sent back did not enrich humanity with revolutionary knowledge. Specialists classify most of the following Soviet, American, and international "landing operations" as either unsuccessful or "partially successful." We expect the mission "Mars In Sight" to be much more productive. The lander’s equipement will allow to register the planet’s tremors, assess the heat fluxes of the local subsoil, determine any deviations in the uniform rotation of the planet ... This information will allow us to seriously advance in studying the processes of the formation of the Solar System.