NASA plans to host workshop for interdisciplinary experts to evaluate potential landing sites
NASA recently announced the signing of a statement under which they and three other international companies will develop the concept of an international Mars Ice Mapper mission.
In order to bring together all the knowledge already available, NASA commissioned the SWIM project to find out how and in what way subsurface ice is located on Mars.
Scientists have accumulated data for 20 years of studying Mars, and also added information about the measurements of the planet using various devices. They also combined information about the composition of the soil.
According to the authors of the work, a map of Mars drawn up in the 2020s could help make human flights to the red planet feasible as early as the 2030s.
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