NASA Mars Curiosity Rover Report — June 7, 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.
If I live long enough to see Mars get turned into a space colony, I would be very happy! 😀
So where are the aliens?
You can clearly see a flowing river with waves and white caps in these pics. :59. nuff said
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Bad anggle camera mike andriano are smart then U
Looks a lot like crumbling concrete ! and? Mt. sharp looks?fuzzy and undefined, as usual !, we know why that is. I'm with the other guys; we know they're capable of videos, but all we get is censored stop-motion animation!