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LhjrSitting with 200 people at the International Mars Sample Return Conference in Berlin recently to discuss the feasibility of bringing samples back from Mar mizuno s to Earth, I remember the first such conference in Paris ten years ago. Many of the same people were present again, older and possibly wiser, but certainly more grey or bald. And they were just as enthusiastic as a decade ago. But one thing had changed dramatically: the information we were sharing. In ten years, technology has progressed so that precision landing, roving capability, robotic drilling, remote sample collection and manipulation are all sufficiently advanced to now be able to retrieve samples. This is why the European Space Agency and Nasa have now signed a memorandum of understanding, pledging to work together to make the mission a reality.The technology that would help us to avoid contaminatingairforces Mars with Earth microbes and vice versaif there turns out to be life there鈥? breaking the chain of contact , where a capsule launched from Mars surface with a sample could not return to Earth, as it would risk contaminating our biosphere 鈥?is also well developed now. Today, it would even be possible to send a capsule launched from Mars into orbit around Mars and have a separate spacecraft capturing it before sending it back to Earth.Finding fossilsBut why would we go through all this troubleand expenseto bring a few rocks ba adidas samba adidas ckWe have become used to spectacular images from the cameras aboard the Curiosity rove XiszIt a 360 degree exhibition space that immersed people in stanley francethe paintings of David Hockney and a rocket lift-off with Tom Hanks.Now, the huge four-storey walls of the Lightroom in London are showing Vogue: Inventing the Runway ;.The exhibition promises to take people through the history of the fashion show, from the early collections of Paris couture to theinst stanley quencher agrammablemega productions of today.Share on FacebookShareShare on TwitterTweetShare on WhatsAppSendShar stanley nz e on WhatsAppSendShare on WhatsAppEmailLoad more share options
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