Astrophysics experiments

BESS is a particle physics experiment carried by a balloon. BESS stands for Balloon-borne Experiment with Superconducting Spectrometer.BESS is a series of experiments that started in 1993

1. And a later incarnation
2. BESS-Polar

Circled the Antarctic from December 13 to December 21

For a total of 8 days 17 hours and 2 minutes.This joint Japanese and American project is supported by the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics (LHEA) at NASA's GSFC and the KEK.

In 1976 two identical Viking program landers each carried four types of biological experiments to the surface of Mars.The first successful Mars landers

Viking 1 and Viking 2

Then carried out experiments to look for biosignatures of microbial life on Mars.The landers each used a robotic arm to pick up and place soil samples into sealed test containers on the craft.