Mars Mission with Rover Curiosity on its way to MARS

The radiation measuring device according to the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne, provide data on which radiation would be exposed to possible future Mars astronauts. The DLR and the University of Kiel, the sensor unit of the instrument with the symbol RAD ("Radiation Assessment Detector") was developed. It is the size of a shoebox and to clarify the question of how deep the possible past life forms must have been in the ground to survive the radiation on Mars.

Goals of the mission:

The recording of the composition and amount of carbon-containing organic compounds

The quantitative measurement of the basic building blocks of life (hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, phosphorus and sulfur)

Search for structures on the biological processes indicate

Investigation of the Martian surface in terms of their mineralogical, chemical and isotopic composition

Understand the processes which the soil and rocks have created and influenced

Determining the current distribution and condition of water and carbon dioxide

Analysis of atmospheric evolution over a period of 4 billion years ago.