NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Report – January 18, 2013
A NASA 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, 2012 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.
The guy looks like a kid who grew up too fast
Right !
(I know im late but i was on mars…)
i wonder what conspiracies would do if obama goes on the news today and say okay guys you win its all fake here is bob our resident alien….hello i'm bob I'm from mars i wanted to learn English before i addressed you…. i think they wouldn't believe they'd say its a hoax or something.
I thought the rover had tracks!!!?
is there any life ?
hmm….all that technology, just run over the rocks and anilyse them
lets get some high rez sites of the sky. all we see is images a few inches from the ground.
lol
0.38 looks nice
tem q mandar um robo desses a Europa lua de Jupiter
Показать реально каторый бурильных местах Марса что произошло метанового газа или вада. вышла