Assessment of Mars Science and Mission Priorities (2003) / Chapter Skim
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13. Conclusions
13. Conclusions
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The space agency is not now in a position to ask direct questions about life on Mars, and has not been since the Viking mission in the 1970s, but the missions supported are designed to find the areas most promising for water and life, and to investigate in situ their chemical and petrographic potential for extant or fossil life. Since NASA operates within budget constraints, this emphasis on one particular scientific objective necessarily comes at the expense of others.
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Our understanding of the most Earth-like planet beyond our own has increased dramatically in 35 years of spacecraft research (see Figure 13.1~. Most of us will live to see an even greater increment of knowledge result from execution of the Mars Exploration Program that this report describes.
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