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Lesson 4: Curiosity rover: discoveries- Curiosity has landed
- Curiosity descent
- Systems check
- Curiosity's first drive
- Navigation update
- Observations
- Discovery: Streambed
- First CheMin results
- Preparation for holidays
- Calcium-rich deposits found
- Results of first drilling
- Mars' bygone atmosphere
- 'Spring Break' over: commanding resumes
- Rover ready to switch gears
- Trek to Mt. Sharp begins
- Dating younger rocks
- Curiosity completes its first martian year
- A softer trek to mount sharp
- A taste of mount sharp
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Curiosity's first drive
(Aug. 24, 2012). Created by NASA.
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- At about 1 :00 how thick are the tires and is Curiosity 4 wheel drive?(6 votes)
- Each of Curiosity's wheels is about 20 inches in diameter, and 16 inches wide. Curiosity has 6 wheels, and is a 4 wheel drive. Hope my answer helped. :)(10 votes)
- Has curiosity ever found any life on mars.(3 votes)
- If it had, I can assure you, you'd have known about it.(4 votes)
- what did they name the landing site that was named after ray bradbury(2 votes)
- So What exactly does Curiosity work on ? Gas, fuel, a generator? What gives power to curiosity so that it functions properly ?(1 vote)
- The rover does have a generator called a radioisotope power system which produces electricity from the natural decay of plutonium on board. For more search here: http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/technology/technologiesofbroadbenefit/power/(2 votes)
- Are they really Going to land a rover back on mars at a different location and get needs to build a habitat?(1 vote)
- There are currently no official approved missions planned with an intent to build a habitat on Mars, though NASA certainly has studied the possibility and come up with plans and proposals for future missions(1 vote)
- is curiosity still on mars collecting samples?(1 vote)
- u said that no marsian were harmed
but explain me that does life exists on mars and are there any people/aliens there?(1 vote)- as of now we haven't discovered any 'aliens' on mars but we are still searching.(1 vote)