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If all goes as planned, NASA’s space vehicle Perseverance will touchdown on Mars Thursday night in the agency’s most ambitious mission to date. The mission’s primary task is to look for traces of life and in doing so, address one of the most fundamental questions in human history: Are we alone?
“The ultimate goal is to find traces of microscopic life that may have been present on Mars early in the planet’s history. If there was ever life on Mars, there’s a good chance that the samples from this mission will let us know. This is an extraordinarily exciting time,” says Morten Bo Madsen, a physicist and associate professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute.
Traces of prehistoric life will be the ultimate goal as the NASA rover Perseverance lands on Mars tonight. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen.
The research, which was published in the European Geosciences Union journal
Ocean Science, further revealed that, under the research team’s worst-case scenario, sea levels could surge as much as four and a half feet by the year 2100.
In its most recent assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had announced that sea levels were unlikely to rise beyond 3.6 feet by 2100.
The study’s authors noted that predictions used by the IPCC are based on a “jigsaw puzzle” of models for ice sheets, glaciers, and the warming of the sea. Such predictions can suffer because only a limited amount of data is sometimes available for the models to be tested on.