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NASA's third Mars rover is one step closer to reality it doesn't have a super cool name like opportunity or curiosity yet but the Mars 2020 Rover does have some really awesome concept art this artist render is the newest look at NASA's future Mars rover NASA featured the concept as an image of the day and refreshed our collective memories as to the rover's planned capabilities it'll be searching for habitable conditions and microbial life from the red planet's ancient past the Mars 2020 Rover takes a lot of its design cues from curiosity but there's a new drill on board that will collect rock and soil samples in addition its wheels have been reworked so hopefully we won't be experiencing as much wear and tear as time goes on the concept will continue to evolve as we get closer to the rover's planned launch in mid 2020 one of NASA's goals with this Rover is to assess potential hazards and resources for future human explorers and dovetails nicely with NASA's plan to send a crew to Mars in the 2030s as for where this rover will land once it gets to the Red Planet NASA's got its landing sites narrowed down to three potential spots Northeast iris and ancient part of the planet surface jezero crater which used to have a Martian Lake and Columbia Hills which may have been home to an ancient hot spring I don't know about you guys but a Martian hot spring sounds pretty relaxing we'll be keeping a close eye on the development of the Mars 2020 Rover on CNET comm I'm Ashley sceva Deegan humans