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Aerial Drone To Hunt For Life On Mars
astroengine writes "What if the Martian terrain is too rugged for a rover to traverse? How do we study surface features that are too small for an orbiter to resolve? If selected by NASA, the Aerial Regional-Scale Environment Surveyor (ARES) could soar high above the Martian landscape, getting a unique birds-eye view of the Red Planet. Its primary mission is to sniff out potential microbial-life-generating gases like methane, but it would also be an ideal reconnaissance vehicle to find future landing sites for a manned expedition. Prototypes of the rocket-powered drone have been successfully flown here on Earth, so will we see ARES on Mars any time soon?"
And will be carrying a Hellfire missile, just in case said life decides to get uppity.
Or just to make the end-of-life for the UAV much more exciting. Either way.
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Aerial Regional-Scale Environment Surveyor (ARES)
Even NASA has trolls apparently
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The acronym for Aerial Regional-Scale Environment Surveyor should instead be read as ARSES... Which kinda fits for a mission looking for methane emissions and germs.
Ya, we're just running our A.R.S.E.S. all over it, aren't we?
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Are they finally expanding their search for Bin Laden?
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