Paul Cirillo provides an inside look at the Mars 20-20 Rover, which is part of NASA's long term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. Its mission will be to search for signs of habitable conditions on Mars in the ancient past as well as for signs of past microbial life itself. The Rover will be using a drill that can collect core samples and set them aside on the surface of Mars for a future mission to potentially return them to Earth.
The Rover mission will demonstrate technologies that address the challenges of future human expeditions to Mars such as making oxygen from the Mars atmosphere and searching for subsurface water.