Curiosity Celebrates Its One Year Anniversary Of Landing On Mars.The article mentions the anniversary of the Curiosity rover which landed in 2012 on Mars.KnappAlexEBSCO_bspForbes.com
And pride. We were landing on Mars after all, a planet 225 million kilometres from Earth on average. Yes, we've been on Mars before but with Curiosity, NASA practically invited us to join their team. From our laptop screens, we witnessed the elation of the NASA engineers upon confirmation...
A complicated landing Infographic detailing the landing sequence for the Curiosity rover.(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The spacecraft arrived on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, after a daring landing sequence that NASA dubbed "Seven Minutes of Terror." Because of Curiosity's weight, NASA determined ...
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona) NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has entered a new realm on the Red Planet. The 1-ton Curiosity rover has now cruised out of its landing ellipse, the area — about 4 miles wide by 12 miles long (7 by 20 kilometers) — regarded as ...
WASHINGTON (WBBM) –The landing of the rover Curiosity early Monday on Mars is being called the science event of the decade, and Chicago-native John Grunsfeld will oversee the operation in the first major undertaking of his new tenure as NASA's top scientist. ...
One of the most challenging aspects of the mission, from an engineering perspective, was safely landing the rover on the surface. The entry descent and landing (EDL) system used a heat shield to accommodate its hypersonic entry conditions, followed by a supersonic parachute, and eight retro ...
“For its ambitious goals, this mission needs a great landing site and a big payload,” said Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters. “During the descent through the atmosphere, the mission will rely on bold techniques enabling use of a smaller target ...
Even with the boost offered by the real Curiosity landing on Mars on the night of Aug. 5 (PDT; Aug. 6 EDT) — more than half of the votes to date were cast over the past week — the project has a long way to go to before LEGO will look at it for possible production and ...
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Curiosity stretched its robotic arm Monday for the first time since landing on Mars as the rover prepared to gather samples from the planet's surface. The 2.1-meter-long arm would maneuver a turret of tools, including a camera, a drill, a spectrometer,...
While surveying the site of an ancient channel on Mars, the Curiosity rover ran over a rock and discovered pure sulfur on the red planet for the first time.