Meet Orpheus - A Hopper Mission Built To Hunt For Life In Martian Volcanoes

Meet Orpheus - A Hopper Mission Built To Hunt For Life In Martian Volcanoes
By Andy Tomaswick (https://ift.tt/CV9WSD4)

We’ve spent decades scratching the surface of Mars trying to uncover life there. But we’ve been searching a barren wasteland bombarded by radiation and bathed in toxic perchlorates. The entire time, it's likely that it’s been too hostile to harbor extant life. So if we want a better shot at finding currently living life on Mars, we need to go underground. That is exactly the purpose of Orpheus, a proposed Mars vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) hopper mission put forth by Connor Bunn and Pascal Lee of the SETI Institute at the 57th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC).

April 8, 2026 at 07:18PM
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