Episode 237Perseverance is embellished with little bonus features intended to both honor various people and events relevant to the mission and to engage the ...
Fast forward to 2025, and we take it for granted that we’re roving Mars, covering the kind of scientifically compelling terrain that Carl could only dream about.
(My emphasis added)
I certainly hope that’s not true, because Mars exploration - by the US - is under serious threat.
Now after five rovers and a helicopter, there’s no current plan for any more.
This does ignore the European plan to launch the full-sized ExoMars “Rosalind Franklin” rover in 2028, but I can’t disagree with Mars Guy too loudly here. Aside from the small but neat EscaPADE mission that NASA plans to launch soon (two orbiters, no lander, no rover), planned science missions to the surface are non-existent for years to come.
Unless China does their sample return mission later this decade, that is…
(My emphasis added)
I certainly hope that’s not true, because Mars exploration - by the US - is under serious threat.
This does ignore the European plan to launch the full-sized ExoMars “Rosalind Franklin” rover in 2028, but I can’t disagree with Mars Guy too loudly here. Aside from the small but neat EscaPADE mission that NASA plans to launch soon (two orbiters, no lander, no rover), planned science missions to the surface are non-existent for years to come.
Unless China does their sample return mission later this decade, that is…