NASA's Curiosity Rover - Mars Science Laboratory
by Ram Vasudev
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NASA's Curiosity Rover - Mars Science Laboratory
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Ram Vasudev
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A full-size replica of the Curiosity Rover (Mars Science Laboratory, MSL), on display at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Curiosity is a large robotic rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars. It is about the size of a Mini-Cooper (9.5 feet long, 8.9 feet wide, and 7.2 feet tall). It weighs 1,980 pounds, including 180 pounds of scientific instruments. Also called the Mars Science Laboratory, it was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on November 27, 2011 at 10:02 EST aboard an Atlas V rocket. It landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012 after a 563 million mile journey.
The rover's goals are to investigate the Martian climate and geology, assess if certain locations within Gale Crater ever had environmental conditions favorable for microbial life forms, look for chemical signatures (fingerprints) of past or present life on Mars, investigate the history of water on Mars, and perform habitability studies in preparation for future human exploration. The rover's design will serve as the basis for a planned Mars mission in 2020 that will prepare for eventual return martian samples back to Earth by yet another Mars mission. These samples will be studied in depth in laboratories on Earth.
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December 15th, 2013
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