hello and welcome to space this month
 
we're going to take a close look at the
 
mission let's try to answer one of the
 
toughest questions of the mall is there
 
or has there ever been life on Mars but
 
first let's have a look at some other
 
news from the universe this map the ISS
 
crew schedule has been rapidly revised
 
after the russian progress resupply ship
 
failure either asteroid Samantha
 
Christopher ready now stays until
 
mid-june the next crew adelaide two
 
months and space tourists sarah
 
brightman postponed her flight in
 
September
 
Europe's only parabolic flight company
 
novice bax's a new plane the X german
 
airforce airbus a310 will run regular
 
flights from Bordeaux allowing
 
scientists to experiment in a weightless
 
environment to our main story now and
 
getting to Mars landing there safely and
 
then beginning the search for life is a
 
huge scientific and technical challenge
 
Mauricio Capuano and rich are pseudo
 
accounting down to the launch of the
 
world's biggest ever mission to the red
 
planet their part of the huge team
 
behind exomars a joint easter and Ross
 
cosmos project to search for life on
 
Mars and the first spacecraft is almost
 
ready where the x mark this is excellent
 
2016 which next year will land on the
 
Red Planet the lower part will go into
 
orbit around Mars coming out its solar
 
panels to get energy from the Sun and
 
the upper part is the lander which will
 
learn directly on the Martian surface
 
completely autonomously feature marciana
 
let them make their out autumn
 
exomars is split into two missions the
 
first in 2016 the second in 2018 this
 
spacecraft is on a type test schedule
 
here at telus alenia space in the South
 
of France and that's because it only has
 
a narrow window of opportunity to reach
 
its target
 
what is your math and forth on the
 
contents of her to go to Mars you have
 
to wait for the right conjunction of
 
Earth and Mars taking into account the
 
orbits of the two planets favorable
 
conjunctions only happens every 26,000
 
it's really fancy one
 
once that mask the spacecraft splits
 
into satellite stays in orbit and the
 
lander heads for the surface easter
 
hopes this test capsule will perform
 
Europe's first ever controlled landing
 
on masks
 
I'm not for my keyboard on the beach a
 
little phone makes you think of
 
spaceships UFOs if you like because the
 
aerodynamic shape of the object of the
 
best to control the entry into the
 
Martian atmosphere make their own
 
immigration more control on a lot more
 
serramonte are exomars 2016 will send
 
back crucial information
 
firstly it will show how the lander
 
performed and secondly the orbiter acts
 
like a giant nose sniffing the Martian
 
atmosphere for me thane the gas could be
 
a clue to the possible presence of life
 
then in 2018 the exomars rover will be
 
launched the roads going like some eyes
 
2018 is really opening a new chapter in
 
my exploration for the first time we
 
will address the third dimension which
 
is death
 
this is very important because it is in
 
the subsurface and a depth that we have
 
the best chance of finding evidence for
 
the possible paths presence of life on
 
Mars
 
sending a machine to dig down into Mars
 
is difficult
 
the very first hurdle is considered the
 
greatest landing safely then the exomars
 
rover will need to change really find
 
its way around
 
we see yet the prototype of the rover
 
going down the Rams he said more or less
 
i will happen in reality or mask
 
the rover will aim for a landing site
 
halfway between the Martian hills and
 
the low-lying planes it will look for
 
places where water should be below the
 
surface and then it will drill down up
 
to two metres
 
the driller speed there is a a it's
 
quite law if you when you compare to the
 
real that you use a Thomas a 44 homework
 
and we have only a digital painting with
 
the 50-60 was so is the power that user
 
and popular lamp normally and is capable
 
to do a great job because a 2d hall down
 
to meet and get the simple nasa's
 
curiosity rover has confirmed the
 
habitability of Mars so exomars will
 
search for fossilized evidence of
 
microbes and hunt for traces of organic
 
molecules the microbes themselves would
 
be too small to see their sizes in the
 
order of 1 to a few microns so you would
 
need a big fat microscope to be able to
 
see them something we don't have on our
 
missions but colonies of organisms can
 
affect the position of rocks and
 
that we would be able to see the other
 
type of by a signature is organic
 
molecules and here you have to think of
 
them as the labor breaks of self the
 
exomars rover can also spot any present
 
day life on Mars hidden beneath the
 
surface away from harmful radiation but
 
is that possible
 
do the exomars experts really think
 
there's life on Mars is a forester and
 
the million-dollar question i am
 
convinced that that there has been a lie
 
for my trip I think it's quite likely
 
that there is life on marks
 
that's not personally I don't think
 
there's life on Mars but that's my
 
personal opinion you're really nice I
 
think there's a reasonable chance that
 
there may be some pockets of life
 
deep in the subsurface so the mission is
 
underway to find out if there is or has
 
ever been life on Mars exomars could
 
provide the answer by the end of the
 
decade
 
to cologne now in our regular update
 
from the astronaut Academy where we
 
asked andreas how you prepare
 
psychologically to go to space
 
what do asked not to worry about i mean
 
everything from from the big to the
 
small one state you have a lot of
 
different pressure coming on your
 
shoulder
 
the first one I would say this kid it's
 
very tight our greatest the pressure on
 
us is that the Science and Technology
 
experiments that we perform our
 
performance successfully second one is
 
the reason you're in an extreme
 
environment if anything goes wrong it
 
goes really wrong we really spent a lot
 
of time almost memorizing what we're
 
supposed to do it in the event of
 
emergency but we also worry about
 
calling our family talking to our
 
friends everybody will have turned down
 
during the duration right but as a crew
 
it will get the same time and the crew
 
together and make it
 
that's it for now next month we'll have
 
a look at the latest in rocket
 
technology see that
 
I heard about the only person around it
 
doesn't have TV coverage of the favor
 
and hit man got the black up now you're
 
gonna be the star in the TV picture now
 
they are gay
 
ok
 
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