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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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A taste of mount sharp
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has collected its first drill sample from the base of Mount Sharp. The scientific allure of the layered mountain inside a crater drew the team to choose this part Mars as its landing site.
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can nasa please give us things on the galaxy and life in the universe please(7 votes)
When are we going to get more updates on and about the mission to mount sharp travelled by curiosity rover.(8 votes)
You can access the latest info on the Curiosity by visiting NASA's Mars Science Laboratory website. It truly is updated frequently - occasionally more than once a day! Here is the link:
http://marsmobile.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/mars-rover-curiosity-mission-updates/(5 votes)
What has Curiosity found about Mt. Sharp?(3 votes)- Evidence that habitable environments could have existed in mars' past.(5 votes)
- How much longer will Curiosity operate for?(2 votes)
Based on power and weather on Mars, the current estimation is 10-13 more years.
(source: http://www.spaceanswers.com/space-exploration/when-will-curiosity-stop-working/)
[The source is from 2013, so I edited the years to be more accurate in 2015.](3 votes)
when yall gave curiosity a software update did yall bring her back to earth then when yall got done yall brought her back to mars??(1 vote)
no curiosity is a rover.And rovers never come back.Moreover the entry descent landing sequence was really hard.So bringing her back to mars would be really hard.Not only that,there aren't any procedures for launching her to earth(because rovers never come back).And guess what,it takes at least a half year for curiosity to traverse between earth and mars. So that just proves that bringing her back to earth,update the software and sending her back to mars is practically impossible.(4 votes)
- What is curiosity doing now?(1 vote)
Is Curiosity still operating?(1 vote)
Yes! You can read it's mission updates from NASA: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/mars-rover-curiosity-mission-updates/(2 votes)
Is this the end of the course? It seems so abrupt...(1 vote)
When is NASA going to send the next Rover to Mars?(1 vote)
I think they are building "Curiosity's sister" now. Though I could be wrong.(1 vote)
- and start terraforming mars already(1 vote)
mars' atmosphere is mostly co2 (carbon dioxide) and plants breath co2 with the right soil and with water we can grow plants and get ox2 (oxygen) so we can live there(1 vote)
