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Course: NASA > Unit 3
Lesson 3: Curiosity rover: mission briefing- Why go to Mars?
- Seeking signs of habitability
- Where to look?
- Destination: Gale crater
- Navigation
- Rover vision
- ChemCam
- Surface and atmospheric studies
- Curiosity's arm
- Curiosity's hand
- Chemistry and mineralogy
- SAM Instruments
- Preparing for landing
- Entry, descent & landing
- MSL Brief
- Curiosity landing simulation
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Curiosity's arm
Introduction to the rover's arm
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- How much did they spend to send Curiosity to Mars?(12 votes)
- The total cost was $2.47 billion, including $1.8 billion for spacecraft.(7 votes)
- Is there any way for Curiosity to return to Earth?(4 votes)
- The director of Nasa's Mars exploration programme says he hopes that one day the rover Curiosity might be brought back to Earth by astronauts.(2 votes)
- how long is the curiosity's arm(2 votes)
- how do people make the arm delicate? the arm is supposed to be sturdy.(1 vote)
- Sturdy things also tend to be heavy things. Mass is the single most important part of a space mission and it is generally favorable to make things as light as possible so that less fuel is needed to get it where it needs to go.(3 votes)
- how many years the curiosity arm to reach mars(1 vote)
- why did scientist only find mars to do all the experiments on it(1 vote)
- why did they really only focus on mars even though nasa folks will never would let the people know.(1 vote)
- how did they think of curiosity(1 vote)
- by wanting to examine mars.they came up with a robot rover to do it(1 vote)
- how did they think of curiosity(1 vote)
- I believe NASA actually had asked school kids for ideas for the name. Here is a story of it: http://mashable.com/2012/11/16/clara-ma-curiosity-rover/#r5bzCk6cQkqs(1 vote)
- Does curiosity still collect and send back data even 6 years after it's launch?(1 vote)
- Yes! You can check the updates from Curiosity mission here: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/mars-rover-curiosity-mission-updates/(1 vote)
- does curiosity still collect and send back data even 8 years after its launch(1 vote)