According to reports, recently, NASA finally announced the decision to abandon the "mole", in the past 2 years, the "mole" has been trying to drill itself into the crust of Mars, but unfortunately, the hardness of the soil of Mars and the scientists' previous judgment is inconsistent, which also led to the "mole" can not complete the task at all.
The Mole probe was finally abandoned
In 2018, with the landing of "InSight" on Mars, NASA also let "InSight" carry an interesting device: "Mole" probe, when the plan made by researchers was to drill into about 5 meters below the Martian stratum, on the one hand, to detect the formation of Mars, on the other hand, hoping to find possible Martian life in the strata, or Martian fossils.
But in fact, the "mole" only drilled in about half a meter in the end, the researchers said, this is due to the "mole" detector can not get enough friction.
In the past 2 years, the Team of German scientists in charge of the "Mole" has been trying to find ways to make the "Mole" successfully complete the task, but after many attempts, they can only accept the indisputable fact that the "Mole" and Mars cannot be combined.
However, although the "mole" failed, the "mole" also provides a lot of favorable references for humans, and IN THE FUTURE NASA will still try to excavate on Mars, hoping to uncover more secrets of Mars.
Who will replace the Mole to complete the task?
The Perseverance probe, which will arrive on Mars around the 18th of next month and then choose to land, does not carry a device similar to the "Mole", which also means that if after perseverance, NASA does not plan to continue to launch Mars probes in the next few years, then it may only be until around 2030, NASA astronauts personally go to Mars to dig.
However, whether humans can successfully land on Mars like the conquest of the moon, there are still many doubts, first of all, the success rate of probe landing on Mars is less than 50%, and if humans want to go to Mars, they also need to sail alone in space for about 6-7 months, whether astronauts can withstand such a long flight is also a problem that needs to be measured in many ways.
However, since Mars is considered to be the "second home" of humanity in the future, what humans need to do before humans can truly transform Mars and colonize Mars must be familiar with the red planet, including understanding its internal composition.
Researchers believe that the liquid water suitable for drinking on Mars, including many precious mineral resources, is hidden in the formation of Mars, and even in the formation of Mars, microscopic life (microorganisms) can be found.
Therefore, although the "mole" failed, but there will be other "moles" to Mars in the future, I believe that the future with the continuous progress of human science and technology, one day human probes can successfully drill into the interior of Mars.
Can humans really colonize Mars?
If it is from the perspective of pure landing, according to the current level of scientific development of mankind, it is still very likely that human beings want to land on the Red Planet in 10 years, and the success rate is at least 40%-50% according to the probability of the probe landing, but after landing on Mars, whether it is really possible to carry out various exploration plans as scheduled, sample back to earth as scheduled, including follow-up transformation, immigration and other issues, these are not easy to say.
First of all, after the astronauts land on Mars, they need to face the cold, dry, anaerobic harsh environment on Mars, and astronauts need to wear protective clothing to investigate on this red planet at all times, and they must also consider the period of landing and investigation to avoid the terrible sandstorms on Mars, otherwise it is easy to die on Mars.
And the landing is only the first step to success, after all, astronauts can not live on Mars for a long time, so soon after landing on Mars, it is necessary to return to the earth, and how to launch from the surface of Mars, leave the orbit of Mars, successfully return to the earth, etc., this series of operations, will also be a very big problem.
Even if these problems are solved, human beings want to colonize Mars is still far away, after all, there is still a step of transformation, although many scientists believe that human beings only need about 100-200 years or so to complete the basic transformation on Mars, but the assumption is conceived, the real implementation, may be any link of the problem, human beings can not transform Mars, which also means that although human beings dream of flying out of the earth, flying to Mars, but we may never be able to achieve.
Of course, now NASA and others have planned to take the moon to test the waters, if in the next 10 years, the moon transformation plan can really be carried out smoothly, then Mars transformation, Mars migration is still expected to be realized, otherwise, everything may be just empty talk, what do you think?