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"  Today NASA announced the seven instruments that will fly aboard its next Mars rover, scheduled launch in 2020. The 2020 Mars mission will take a closer look at the Mars environment to help scientists determine its habitability and to advance NASA&amp;#039;s plan of sending humans to the Red Planet in the 2030s. The 2020 Mars rover will have an instrument that will convert atmospheric carbon dioxide to breathable oxygen, along with a device that will measure how dangerous the dust in the atmosphere could be to humans. The rover also will look for signatures of ancient life on Mars and select rock and soil samples that a later mission would bring back for analysis.  Here&amp;#039;s a breakdown of the seven instruments that were selected from 58 proposals: Mastcam-Z: A supercharged camera that can shoot panoramic and stereoscopic images. SuperCam: Another camera, but this one can determine the molecular compositions of rocks from a distance. Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry: A spectrometer that will shoot X-rays at Martian rock samples to analyze their chemical makeup in great detail. Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman &amp;amp;amp; Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals: A spectrometer that will fire an ultraviolet laser to look for organic molecules, the building blocks of life. The Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment: A device that will attempt to create oxygen from the carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere. Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer: A weather station that will measure temperature, winds, pressure, relative humidity, and amounts of atmospheric dust. The Radar Imager for Mars&amp;#039; Subsurface Exploration: A radar that will give scientists an idea of Mars&amp;#039; subsurface geology. NASA will model the 2020 Mars rover&amp;#039;s design on Curiosity, since that rover has been so successful\u2014it&amp;#039;s been roving the Red Planet since 2012 and is still operating in fine shape. The Mars 2020 mission will be managed by NASA&amp;#039;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; the instruments will cost approximately $130 million to develop. The project is part of the Mars Exploration Program, the same one that is behind the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers. Other future missions to Mars include the MAVEN orbiter, which will arrive this September, and a probe called InSight that will study Mars&amp;#039; interior. It&amp;#039;s scheduled to launch in 2016. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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