Space researchers claim to have made a dramatic discovery: there is life on Mars. Over the years, the American space agency NASA has launched several unmanned vehicles that have landed safely on the planet, and from images transmitted to Earth in recent months, some believe that a creature resembling a living crocodile can be seen.
Mars is the fourth planet in the Solar System. It is the outer planet with the closest orbit to Earth and one of the smallest planets in the Solar System. Mars has a diameter of 6,721 km (about half the diameter of Earth) and completes one rotation on its axis once every 24 hours and 37 minutes. Mars completes one revolution around the Sun every 686.98 days at an average speed of 24.13 km per second [Wikipedia].
Over the years, several spacecraft have been launched to Mars by the American Space Agency and the Soviet Space Agency. In 1969, a spacecraft named Mariner 6 first landed on the planet. Since then, several more vehicles and spacecraft have been launched, the most recent of which were the robotic rover Spirit in 2004, and Opportunity also in 2004. On March 2, NASA announced that Opportunity had discovered unequivocal evidence of the existence of water on the planet's surface. This discovery means that life may have existed on the planet in the past.
Opportunity continued to operate for many years, as did other space vehicles and probes, and from the images that were launched, researchers are convinced that an animal resembling a crocodile can be seen. Other researchers refuse to accept the argument and explain that it is simply a block of rock with the shape of the jaws of the marine predator. No manned vehicles have been launched to the planet so far, but then-US President George W. Bush declared after the Columbia shuttle disaster that this was the next goal of the national space program.
It should be noted that in the biographical book written about Rabbi Feinstein, zt"l, it is said that when the United States announced the Apollo program, during which man landed on the moon, the world held its breath in anticipation of the possibility that the astronauts would discover additional forms of life outside of Earth. However, the rabbi firmly stated that they would not find any life. When the great Posk was asked why he was so convinced, Rabbi Feinstein replied:PFoolishly and humbly, because in the entire Torah there is no hint that life exists outside of Earth.
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