Mars Mission: Curiosity - Page 51

On August 17 2012 06:34 Pandemona wrote:


Thanks! Pretty much does, they say they would release anything like that to the press after "making sure the find was definant" but i guess it could be twisted into them saying, well i don't think it's in the best interests xD

Over the next few days, the team will perform some more calibration work with ChemCam, he added. The rover will also photograph N165 before finally shooting the rock with the laser — a milestone that could come Saturday night (Aug. 18), researchers said.

N165 was chosen principally for convenience, Wiens said. The ordinary-seeming rock is close to Curiosity and presents a relatively flat face to the rover, making an inviting target for ChemCam.

"We didn't pick it for its science value per se," Wiens said. "This is sort of a target practice, if you will."

Mattel, Inc., makers of the die-cast line of Hot Wheels toy cars, is ready to release the car-size Curiosity as its latest 1:64 scale miniature in September. The Hot Wheels "Mars Rover Curiosity" set is part of Mattel's assortment of 247 toy cars for 2012.

On August 19 2012 10:57 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Hell yeah:



I think Lego is doing the same as well.

On August 19 2012 04:34 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
So Curiosity gets to fire it laser at this today:





Source

In the wake of successfully dropping the SUV-sized Curiosity rover on Mars this month, NASA will send another robot to the Red Planet in 2016 to drill into the planet’s crust and, for the first time, piece together a picture of the Martian interior.

The $425 million robotic lander, named InSIGHT, will be built and operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, the high-flying hotbed of now-famous engineers and scientists who designed and assembled the $2.5 billion Curiosity rover and its heart-stopping “sky crane,” which lowered the Curiosity rover to the Martian surface.

On Monday morning, NASA officials informed JPL staff that InSIGHT had won funding over two other proposed missions.

“This is another big day for us out at JPL,” said Gregg Vane, the lab’s head of planning for solar system exploration.

Whereas Curiosity can roam the surface on six-wheels, InSIGHT will be planted in one spot after dropping onto the Martian surface — minus the sky crane — in September 2016.

A German-built drill nick-named “the mole” will pound 30 feet into the Martian crust to take the temperature of the planet, while a sensitive French-built seismometer will detect any Marsquakes. Together, the instruments will provide vital clues to how Mars formed.

On August 19 2012 04:34 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
So Curiosity gets to fire it laser at this today:





Source

On August 22 2012 01:55 POiNTx wrote:
New conference starting in 5 minutes.

Stream!

On August 21 2012 15:38 JacobShock wrote:


Confirmed! Dustin Browder has been to Mars.