Researcher makes the heart of Mars speak

Exploring the heart (core) of Mars will elucidate the red planet's evolution and thus determine whether life would be possible in the future. In 2020 the ExoMars mission will send a platform with the LaRa, a 100% Belgian-made instrument, supervised by UCLouvain researcher Véronique Dehant LaRa's objective is to observe Mars's rotation in order to understand its core Info: https://lara.oma.be and https://exploration.esa.int/web/mars/-/56933-exomars-2020-surface-platform essor at the UCLouvain Georges Lemaître Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Mobile on request For 20 years, Véronique Dehant, a space scientist at University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Royal Observatory of Belgium , has been working on understanding the Earth's core. In a few months, she will be able to complete her research by studying the heart of Mars, thanks to the ExoMars mission. Its purpose is to collect Martian radio science data and analyse the planet's rotation in order to better understand the red planet's innards and thus determine whether life is feasible on Mars. In the end, for Véronique Dehant, 'This UCLouvain research is one more brick in the wall of understanding outer space.' - A bit of space history. For a planet to be habitable, it needs water on its surface. Previous space missions have demonstrated that there was water on Mars and that there is none today.