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Post by swamprat on Nov 11, 2011 18:22:21 GMT -6
Curiosity getting ready to head for Mars' Gale Crater.CNNNovember 10th, 2011 NASA preps rover flight to MarsNASA scientists said Thursday the launch of its Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft in about two weeks could yield a potential “home run” in space exploration. The new rover Curiosity, bigger and better than its predecessors, is at the forefront of NASA’s effort to investigate Mars for the possibility of habitable life. Speaking to reporters, Doug McCuistion, director of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, wouldn’t take the bait when asked how likely it was that Mars once had life. “That’s kind of a request for speculation and I really hate to do that,” he said, adding that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft the agency uses to study the planet from afar, has found evidence of “briny waters that could actually be liquidly waters on the surface.” The $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is scheduled for liftoff at 10:25 a.m. on November 25 from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Once the sedan-sized Curiosity launches, it will travel about nine months to the surface of the Mars, landing around August 2012. As an ideal landing spot, scientists have selected the Gale Crater, a 96-mile expanse with a mountain in its core. Ashwin Vasavada, deputy project scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory, said Curiosity will give the space agency a treasure trove of data on the soil and rock content of the planet. Of particular interest, Vasavada said, are clay minerals visible from orbit. “We will have a definitive knowledge of the minerals with this rover,” he said. Curiosity will carry about 10 science instruments, including “the workhorse laboratory” the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM), Vasavada said. The mobile lab will be able to examine soil and rock formations in several different environments. “If any of those really scream out as being a habitable environment, we’ll tell you,” Vasavada said. “If we find something it’s a home run,” he said. Peter Theisinger, director of the Engineering and Science Directorate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said once the mission reaches the Martian atmosphere there are several unknowns that could be problematic. “I think the thing at the top of my concern list is what I don’t know,” he said. As much planning as went into building the rover, a number of variables can spell disaster and, “You can’t test for them,” he said. “There’s always going to be surprises. What you worry about is if there’s something there that’s really serious,” like software issues or long duration of exposure, he said. If weather does not permit liftoff on the scheduled day, NASA has made preparations to launch up until December 18, the agency said. lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/10/nasa-preps-rover-flight-to-mars/?hpt=hp_t3
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Post by skywalker on Nov 11, 2011 23:01:49 GMT -6
Why would they land the thing in the middle of an asteroid impact crater if they are looking for signs of life? If ethere ever was any life there the asteroid impact would have obliterated it. Are they deliberately trying to not find it?
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Post by swamprat on Nov 19, 2011 21:41:52 GMT -6
“Why would they land the thing in the middle of an asteroid impact crater if they are looking for signs of life?”Curiosity’s MissionScheduled to land on the Red Planet in August 2012, the one-ton rover will examine Gale Crater during a nearly two-year prime mission. Curiosity will land near the base of a layered mountain 3 miles (5 kilometers) high inside the crater. The rover will investigate whether environmental conditions ever have been favorable for development of microbial life and preserved evidence of those conditions. "Gale gives us a superb opportunity to test multiple potentially habitable environments and the context to understand a very long record of early environmental evolution of the planet," said John Grotzinger, project scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "The portion of the crater where Curiosity will land has an alluvial fan likely formed by water-carried sediments. Layers at the base of the mountain contain clays and sulfates, both known to form in water." Curiosity is twice as long and five times as heavy as earlier Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. The rover will carry a set of 10 science instruments weighing 15 times as much as its predecessors' science payloads. "Mars Science Laboratory builds upon the improved understanding about Mars gained from current and recent missions," said Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "This mission advances technologies and science that will move us toward missions to return samples from, and eventually send humans to, Mars." The mission is challenging and risky. Because Curiosity is too heavy to use an air-bag cushioned touchdown, the mission will use a new landing method, with a rocket-powered descent stage lowering the rover on a tether like a kind of sky-crane. The mission will pioneer precision landing methods during the spacecraft's crucial dive through Mars' atmosphere next August to place the rover onto a smaller landing target than any previously for a Mars mission. The target inside Gale Crater is 12.4 miles (20 kilometers) by 15.5 miles (25 kilometers). Rough terrain just outside that area would have disqualified the landing site without the improved precision. No mission to Mars since the Viking landers in the 1970s has sought a direct answer to the question of whether life has existed on Mars. Curiosity is not designed to answer that question by itself, but its investigations for evidence about prerequisites for life will steer potential future missions toward answers. www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20111110.html
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Post by swamprat on Nov 19, 2011 21:45:01 GMT -6
Curiosity Rover Launch Status
MSL launch delayed to Saturday, Nov. 26Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:09:33 PM EST The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V carrying NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has been delayed one day to allow time for the team to remove and replace a flight termination system battery. The launch is rescheduled for Saturday, Nov. 26 from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The one hour and 43 minute launch window opens at 10:02 a.m. EST.The Monday, Nov. 21 schedule of prelaunch tours and briefings will remain the same. Rollout of the Atlas V to the launch pad moves to Friday, Nov. 25. The rest of the week's briefings and events are being reevaluated and a new prelaunch schedule will be issued on Monday. www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html
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Post by Steve on Nov 20, 2011 4:04:18 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Nov 24, 2011 16:11:58 GMT -6
The Construction of NASA's Next Mars RoverBy Mike Wall Published November 24, 2011 In May 2011, SPACE.com reporter Mike Wall visited NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., as scientists and engineers were wrapping up work on Curiosity, NASA's next Mars rover. This is his account. It could be a scene from a James Bond film — a glimpse into the archvillain's lair. Anonymous white-clad workers, their faces obscured by surgical masks, cross a cavernous, high-ceilinged room. They pause to adjust or inspect large pieces of mysterious equipment, some of which is spangled with bright gold foil. It's obvious that they're building something complicated and important. But they're not assembling a doomsday device, because this is no movie. The white-garbed technicians are employees at JPL, and they're putting the finishing touches on the space agency's next rover mission to Mars. This mission is called the Mars Science Laboratory, and the rover at the heart of it is a car-size robot named Curiosity. Learning more about CuriosityCuriosity is a big, burly rover that will allow scientists to learn much more about the Martian environment, both past and present. Curiosity weighs about 2,000 pounds (909 kilograms), compared to 375 pounds (170 kg) for each of its predecessors, the highly accomplished twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity Read more: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/23/inside-look-construction-nasas-next-mars-rover/?test=latestnews#ixzz1eewNMTiD
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Post by skywalker on Nov 25, 2011 19:09:37 GMT -6
I'm glad they are actually looking for life this time. I don't think they have ever actually given that possibility any serious thought in the past. Maybe now they will finally find something interesting.
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Post by swamprat on Nov 26, 2011 22:22:41 GMT -6
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MSL Spacecraft in Excellent HealthSat, 26 Nov 2011 12:56:09 PM EST A signal from NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, including the new Curiosity rover, was received by officials on the ground shortly after spacecraft separation. The spacecraft is flying free and headed for Mars after separation from the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that started it on its journey to the Red Planet. Liftoff was on time at 10:02 a.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. "Our spacecraft is in excellent health and it's on its way to Mars," said Pete Theisinger, Mars Science Laboratory Project Manager from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Read More: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html
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Post by swamprat on Nov 27, 2011 17:45:59 GMT -6
The voyage of CuriosityRocket powered “sky crane”. Lots of variables to deal with on THIS journey! This artist's concept animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which launched Saturday and will land the rover, Curiosity, on Mars in August 2012. www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=979
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Post by swamprat on Jun 11, 2012 19:57:16 GMT -6
Huge Mars Rover Faces Contamination Issue Ahead of August Landing
by Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer Date: 11 June 2012 This image shows changes in the target landing area for Curiosity, the rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory project. The larger ellipse was the target area prior to early June 2012, when the project revised it to the smaller ellipse centered nearer to the foot of Mount Sharp, inside Gale Crater. Image released June 11, 2012. CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSSAn unexpected contamination problem has cropped up for NASA's next Mars rover, but scientists are confident the huge robot will still be able to complete its mission after it lands on the Red Planet in August. NASA scientists discussed the contamination concern and a new Mars landing plan for the car-size Curiosity rover in a teleconference with reporters today (June 11). The contamination issue, they said, concerns the rover's drill. When Curiosity ultimately bores into a Martian rock, small amounts of Teflon and other contaminants from the drill will likely seep into the sample, NASA officials said. These introduced materials may make it tougher for the Curiosity team to search for organic carbon — the building blocks of life as we know it here on Earth — on the Red Planet. While researchers are still working to get a handle on the problem, they don't think it will significantly hinder the Curiosity rover or its $2.5 billion mission, which is officially known as the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). Right now, the overall sense on the mission team is that "it's not a serious problem, because we see so many potential ways to work around this that we could use," Curiosity lead scientist John Grotzinger, of Caltech in Pasadena, told reporters today. Meanwhile, Grotzinger and his team also said today that they have trimmed down the landing zone for the Curiosity rover in order to bring it closer to its final target: a huge mountain inside Mars' giant Gale Crater. Curiosity launched in late November and is due to touch down in Gale Crater on the night of Aug. 5. After it lands, it will embark on a roughly two-Earth-year mission to determine if the Gale Crater area is, or ever was, capable of supporting microbial life. Curiosity's robotic arm will feed bits of Martian soil and pulverized rock into SAM, and the instrument will look for signs of organic carbon and other material in the samples. The powdered rock will come from a drill on the arm that can penetrate up to 2 inches (5 centimeters) — the first time any Mars rover has been able to get so deep inside Red Planet rocks. The presence of Teflon — the trade name for a chemical known as polytetrafluoroethylene — and other contaminants could lower the signal-to-noise ratio of Martian samples, making it tougher for the MSL team to analyze the material that Curiosity picks up, researchers said. The effect of the contaminants on Curiosity's science operations is still not completely understood, Grotzinger said. It's possible that the impact will be minimal. For example, the Teflon may burn off early in SAM's analysis process, making it easy to identify indigenous Martian compounds (which should stick around longer because they're bound strongly to the rock and dirt). But there are still mitigation steps to take if SAM's analysis is potentially compromised. Contaminant production appears to be stronger in the drill's percussion mode, when it pounds powerfully and rapidly on Martian rock. So ratcheting the percussion down, or switching over to the more gentle rotary mode, may make the issue more manageable. But all in all, he's confident that the team will figure things out in the next month or two. "Those are all scenarios," Grotzinger said. "We're still working through them, but we believe that the SAM instrument has enough capability within it that we can develop some pretty good work-arounds that way." www.space.com/16101-nasa-mars-rover-contamination-landing.html
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Post by swamprat on Jul 31, 2012 14:34:44 GMT -6
Curiosity Rover on Track for Monday Landing
Entry, Descent and Landing Procedure BeginsMon, 30 Jul 2012 Yesterday, the Mars Science Laboratory flight team began executing its procedure for entry, descent and landing (EDL), and the spacecraft begins its sequence of autonomous activities leading to the landing this coming weekend. Curiosity, the car-size, one-ton rover is bound for arrival on Mars at 1:31 a.m., EDT on Monday, Aug. 6. The landing will mark the beginning of a two-year prime mission to investigate one of the most intriguing places on Mars. Landing prep activities include enabling needed components and setting final parameters. In addition, the schedule over the next several days includes opportunities to update parameters for the autonomous software controlling events during EDL. If needed, these updates can fine-tune the spacecraft's autonomous controls for its descent through the atmosphere. Some parameters give the spacecraft's onboard computer knowledge about where the vehicle is relative to Mars. Others may be updated based on observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft of Mars' variable atmospheric conditions in this week before landing. Artist's concept of Mars Science Laboratory entry, descent and landing. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltechwww.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html
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Post by skywalker on Jul 31, 2012 20:49:34 GMT -6
I'm kind of excited about this new Mars mission. I'm convinced more than ever that there is life up there somewhere. It may be just small micro-organisms but life is still life. Maybe Curiousity will find it this time. If it does then maybe NASA will get off of its butt and send some people up there.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2012 11:52:38 GMT -6
I hope my telescope arrives by monday so I can watch it land. ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2012 16:37:58 GMT -6
This landing is going to be challenging at the very least. I certainly hope NASA can pull this off. Everything must go according to plans with no room for error . There are so many phases within the 7 minute window which must be done precisely for this mission to succeed . Good luck NASA !
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Post by auntym on Aug 4, 2012 13:29:32 GMT -6
www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/04/shatner-helps-nasa-rover-to-boldly-go-to-mars/ Shatner helps NASA rover to boldly go to Mars[/color] Published August 04, 2012 SkyNews A NASA rover is preparing to boldly go to the surface of Mars -- and the landing has been explained in a video by original Star Trek actor William Shatner. The Curiosity rover is set to land on Mars next Monday, and Shatner and fellow Trekkie Wil Wheaton have each made a video explaining NASA's hardest planetary science mission to date. The videos, called Grand Entrance, guide viewers through Curiosity's planned entry and descent to the surface of the red planet. They are being shared on the Internet and social media, and NASA's aim is to raise public awareness about the mission and the landing. Shatner played Captain James T. Kirk in "Star Trek," while Wheaton portrayed Wesley Crusher in "Star Trek: The Next Generation." NASA said the pair provided their own unique narration to the videos, allowing a wider range of audience to be reached. 'Thanks to their generous support, Mars exploration will reach Tweeters, Trekkies and beyond!' - NASA multimedia spokesman Bert Ulrich Shatner remains a pop culture phenomenon with more than 50 years of stage, television and film experience, while Wheaton is not only an actor but a writer who possesses a huge social media fan base. "Shatner and Wheaton are mavericks in inspiring film, TV and social media audiences about space," said NASA multimedia spokesman Bert Ulrich. "NASA is thrilled to have them explain a difficult landing sequence in accessible terms that can be understood by many. Thanks to their generous support, Mars exploration will reach Tweeters, Trekkies and beyond!" CONTINUE READING: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/04/shatner-helps-nasa-rover-to-boldly-go-to-mars/ Shatner Hosts Curiosity's "Grand Entrance" to Mars [/color] Published on Jul 30, 2012 by NASAtelevision Actor William Shatner narrates this thrilling video about NASA's Curiosity rover, from its entry and descent through the Martian atmosphere to its landing and exploration of the Red Planet in NASA's hardest planetary science mission to date.
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Post by auntym on Aug 5, 2012 12:08:55 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Aug 5, 2012 23:51:32 GMT -6
Curiosity has landed! It was a success!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2012 0:02:37 GMT -6
I watched it live. They got pictures!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by lois on Aug 6, 2012 0:10:32 GMT -6
There is no video just a photo on the video screen, where are the photos anna?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2012 0:14:17 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2012 0:17:09 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Aug 6, 2012 8:40:01 GMT -6
Dang!! Kept me up half the night! WELL DONE, NASA!!
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Post by auntym on Aug 6, 2012 11:52:59 GMT -6
TheRealNimoy I have Vulcan cousins on Mars. They are gracious hosts.Welcome, NASA. LLAP
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Post by auntym on Aug 6, 2012 12:03:02 GMT -6
Paul @paulthealien So @marscuriosity lands on the alien surface of Mars and the first thing it does is begin probing. Mankind owes me one HUGE apology...
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Post by auntym on Aug 6, 2012 12:26:35 GMT -6
NASA profile NASA Eye in the Sky: MRO's @hirise camera shot this image of @marscuriosity & its parachute during Mars landing. go.nasa.gov/PzSDX6 www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/gallery-indexEvents.html Curiosity Spotted on Parachute by Orbiter[/color] Curiosity Spotted on Parachute by Orbiter NASA's Curiosity rover and its parachute were spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as Curiosity descended to the surface on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). The High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera captured this image of Curiosity while the orbiter was listening to transmissions from the rover. Curiosity and its parachute are in the center of the white box. The rover is descending toward the etched plains just north of the sand dunes that fringe "Mt. Sharp." From the perspective of the orbiter, the parachute and Curiosity are flying at an angle relative to the surface, so the landing site does not appear directly below the rover. The parachute appears fully inflated and performing perfectly. Details in the parachute, such as the band gap at the edges and the central hole, are clearly seen. The cords connecting the parachute to the back shell cannot be seen, although they were seen in the image of NASA's Phoenix lander descending, perhaps due to the difference in lighting angles. The bright spot on the back shell containing Curiosity might be a specular reflection off of a shiny area. Curiosity was released from the back shell sometime after this image was acquired. This view is one product from an observation made by HiRISE targeted to the expected location of Curiosity about one minute prior to landing. It was captured in HiRISE CCD RED1, near the eastern edge of the swath width (there is a RED0 at the very edge). This means that the rover was a bit further east or downrange than predicted. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates the orbiter's HiRISE camera, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of MORE INFO: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/gallery-indexEvents.html
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Post by auntym on Aug 6, 2012 12:38:13 GMT -6
www.kurzweilai.net/nasas-new-mars-rover-sends-higher-resolution-image?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter+Plain+Text&utm_campaign=203e931b74-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=emailNASA’s new Mars Rover sends higher-resolution image[/color] August 6, 2012 one of the first images taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech About two hours after landing on Mars and beaming back its first image, NASA’s Curiosity rover transmitted a higher-resolution image of its new Martian home, Gale Crater. “Curiosity’s landing site is beginning to come into focus,” said John Grotzinger, project manager of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. “In the image, we are looking to the northwest. What you see on the horizon is the rim of Gale Crater. In the foreground, you can see a gravel field. The question is, where does this gravel come from? It is the first of what will be many scientific questions to come from our new home on Mars.” Curiosity landed at 10:32 p.m. Aug. 5, PDT, (1:32 a.m. EDT, Aug. 6) near the foot of a mountain three miles (about five kilometers) tall inside Gale Crater, 96 miles (nearly 155 kilometers) 7in diameter. CONTINUE READING: www.kurzweilai.net/nasas-new-mars-rover-sends-higher-resolution-image?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter+Plain+Text&utm_campaign=203e931b74-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email
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Post by auntym on Aug 6, 2012 12:52:27 GMT -6
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120806-mars-landing-curiosity-rover-nasa-jpl-science/?source=link_tw20120806news-marssuccess&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20120806news-marssuccess&utm_campaign=Content Mars Rover Landing a Success—What Happens Now?[/color] After a yearlong flight and "seven minutes of terror," Curiosity stretches its legs.Marc Kaufman for National Geographic Books Published August 6, 2012 The rover has landed. At 1:31 a.m. ET Monday, the Curiosity rover's "seven minutes of terror" evaporated in a swirl of fine-grained soil as six aluminum wheels touched the red planet for the first time. NASA had nailed the riskiest Mars landing ever. (See "Curiosity Landing on Mars Greeted with Whoops and Tears of Jubilation.") Now Curiosity's two-year search for signs of life begins, with the kind of extended stretch and warm-up you might expect after a cramped, yearlong flight—as detailed here in an excerpt for the new National Geographic e-book Mars Landing 2012. (Watch live Mars rover landing coverage via NASA TV streaming video.) If [the rover's essential systems] are working, then comes a gradual unfolding, deploying, and revving up of the ten science instruments and cameras that are Curiosity's reason for being. It's a process that will take days, and in some cases weeks or months. But the [Curiosity] team will know soon whether the key power and communication systems have sustained any damage during the 352-million-mile [567-million-kilometer] journey or during the high-wire landing. (Pictures: Mars Rover's "Crazy" Landing, Step by Step.)news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/pictures/120804-mars-science-laboratory-nasa-space-rover-landing/Communication is largely accomplished through relays to three satellites orbiting Mars or through the Deep Space Network, a system of giant interconnected antenna dishes in Madrid, Spain; Canberra, Australia; and the Mojave Desert. Assuming that communications are established, the first order of business will be to verify the health of the small nuclear battery that will provide power for the rover. Curiosity carries ten pounds of plutonium-238 dioxide as a heat source, which is then used to produce the onboard electricity needed to move the rover, operate the instruments, and keep the frigid nighttime cold at bay. (Explore an interactive time line of Mars exploration in National Geographic magazine.) Curiosity Unpacks for a Two-Year Visit If all is well, what follows will be a highly choreographed unpacking of the rover. First the mast goes up, with its suite of cameras. Weather and radiation monitoring instruments are turned on, as well as the laser-camera combination that can zap rocks up to 23 feet [7 meters] away and take readings of the "excited" gases released in the process. By "sol 10" ("day 10"—each Martian solar day, known as a sol, is 24.66 hours long), all ten instruments should have been started up to see if they're working, and Curiosity is scheduled to take its first tentative steps—kind of like shaking one's legs to get rid of the pins and needles after a long journey. Only around sol 30 will the seven-foot [two-meter] robotic arm be tested, grabbing Martian soil for the first time to crush and deliver to the two rover mini-laboratories—Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) and Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin). (Get the basics on the Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory rover.) All the while, scientists will be determining exactly where Curiosity is in relation to both the walls of the 80-mile-diameter [130-kilometer-diameter] Gale Crater and the three-mile-high [five-kilometer-high] Mount Sharp in the middle of its huge depression. (On TV: Watch Martian Mega Rover August 9 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on the U.S. National Geographic Channel.) CONTINUE READING: news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120806-mars-landing-curiosity-rover-nasa-jpl-science/?source=link_tw20120806news-marssuccess&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20120806news-marssuccess&utm_campaign=Content
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Post by auntym on Aug 6, 2012 13:10:56 GMT -6
nice find lorelei...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2012 15:54:41 GMT -6
nice find lorelei... I wish I could take the credit for it- but I can't. A friend of mine gave me the link.
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Post by lois on Aug 7, 2012 0:00:49 GMT -6
I have still seen nothing on these links except people talking about it is going to land.
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