NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Report #8
A NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover team member gives an update on developments and status of the planetary exploration mission. The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft delivered Curiosity to its target area on Mars at 1:31:45 a.m. EDT on Aug. 6, which includes the 13.8 minutes needed for confirmation of the touchdown to be radioed to Earth at the speed of light. The rover will conduct a nearly two-year prime mission to investigate whether the Gale Crater region of Mars ever offered conditions favorable for microbial life.
Curiosity carries 10 science instruments with a total mass 15 times as large as the science payloads on NASA’s Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Some of the tools, such as a laser-firing instrument for checking rocks’ elemental composition from a distance, are the first of their kind on Mars. Curiosity will use a drill and scoop, which are located at the end of its robotic arm, to gather soil and powdered samples of rock interiors, then sieve and parcel out these samples into the rover’s analytical laboratory instruments.
There is likely life or evidence of life from earth on mars. large meteor strikes on earth have ejected tons of rocks into space and some of it surely has/will find its way to mars. some may have also come from the many vehicles that we have flung there. If there ever was martian life forms they may have seeded earth in this way also.
nasa is a science oriented organization not there for sightseeing. this rover is a geological laboratory mainly. I don't think they are going to find anything that will make most people go WOW! It's just science.
mars cant hold an atmosphere because it has no magnetic field which allowed the solar wind to blow it away
Very nice!
BRASIL!
1 outa a billion pebbles is round
amazing stuff! see what we can achieve when we work together…corporate control of media and wars for no reason are destroying us all
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