NASA will designate an official name for Mars 2020 this spring, which will be selected from more than 9 million publicly submitted documents.
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Figure 1: Staff at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are testing the Mars rover Mars 2020
January 13th, according to foreign media reports, NASA ’s new Mars exploration vehicle Mars 2020 is scheduled to launch as early as August this year, and it is currently underway at NASA ’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Related tests. American reporters entered the “clean room” of JPL a few days ago and saw this detector with their own eyes, and witnessed how scientists tested it to find traces of life on Mars 3.5 billion years ago, paving the way for human exploration of Mars.
JPL’s “clean room” looks like the TV room in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: This is a very primitive looking room with white jumpsuits, wearing Masked people hurried through various technological magic. NASA’s new Mars rover Mars 2020 is undergoing various tests here, and the agency aims to deploy it to Mars this summer. Although Mars 2020 does not look amazing, it has an important mission: to finally determine whether life exists on Mars.
In the last days of 2019, JPL, based in Pasadena, California, offers journalists rare access to High Bay 1. High Bay 1 is a cave-like live live clean room where engineers have always built the Mars 2020 Mars rover and developed a descent and cruise system to help it complete its seven-month Mars journey. The temperature, humidity and operating procedures of the clean room are strictly controlled, which minimizes the dust, particles and biological pollution in the air that may interfere with electronic equipment and Mars experiments. People need to be “immaculate” to enter.
Before entering this clean room, people must first wear so-called “rabbit suits”, that is, fashionable white polyester jumpsuits,