NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Report #11 — October 19, 2012
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.
Thank you for the update 🙂
Very cool job…. Makes me want to join the air force
It'll be great to have a NASA video with panoramas of Mars? O videos of space? Perhaps some preliminary information of what this gadget is finding? Tired of people talking videos from NASA that really don't show much..good luck!
booring!!! put more stuff!!
Please put some data up… I mean real science… Not just bull shit baffles brains… All you told us is you been testing rocks and how.. same as you told us before it even left the earth…
there is life on mars with 70 million population,, they are exactly like us,,,,
not even 2 minutes!
agrees
Search the garrettlife2012. blogspot . com without the spaces in the URL to lear about what would humans do when we reach Mars, the costs of the operation, and more. Thanks.
more updates please, longer and detailed if possible. the one minute briefings do not satisfy, thank you and keep up the good work.
Good job by NASA, it'll be very interesting if Curiosity identify some scary moving objects in Mars…:)