Free Astronomy Magazine January-February 2020

40 ASTRONAUTICS While waiting to see the ESA’s ExoMars 2020 mission rover in action, let’s get ready for the next NASA mission, Mars 2020, which will see a rover hunt for traces of possible fossil life inside an impact crater that, billions of years ago, housed a lake into which a river delta poured. The conditions for epochal discoveries are there, we just have to be patient. Mars 2020 will land in Jezero Crater by Michele Ferrara revised by Damian G. Allis NASA Solar System Ambassador JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2020