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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 descent
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- I read somewhere that sun sets "Blue" in Martian atmosphere, but why blue? why it is not like our sunset?(4 votes)
- Okay so where did the sounds come from? Curiosity didn't carry any mic.(2 votes)
- The sound might just be artificially generated to sound cool.(1 vote)
- The atmosphere on the mars is different ,how can mars with stand in such a critical atmosphere.(2 votes)
- I'm not sure what you mean by "critical atmosphere" but Mars is a planet. No matter what the composition or density of the atmosphere was, Mars would be able to withstand it.(2 votes)
- In1:57it really looks like it's fake with the rockets/jet then boom, the rover landed...
It would have been cooler if the film was recorded from the space probes or from the parachute or the top part of the sky crane maneuver. Then you could be sure of it was real or fake...(1 vote)- I've got to admit it does almost look faked. I know it's real, but that cloud at the end followed by a nearly static image of it settled is almost hilariously like a jump cut in a low budget film(2 votes)
- how did it video its self at the end?(1 vote)
- This video was made by the MARDI camera on Curiosity.(1 vote)
- What was the silver thing in the start?(1 vote)
- How did they get this footage?! Isn't the rocket gone and the rover landed?1?(1 vote)
- Curiosity has 3 cameras. So it was real. The Mardi camera is able to record color images.(1 vote)
- why are rovers so slow? can't we build them in such a way so that they work a little bit faster and move faster?(1 vote)
- Moving too fast may cause them to drift or slide around, which (unless the goal is to) would be very bad. Also, stronger motors use more energy, making the rovers usable for less time on Mars.(1 vote)
- I wonder how long Curiosity is on mars?(1 vote)
- Is this the actual footage curiosity took? It's so...dull. Just orangish. Nothing alse. Just rock,sand, and rock again.(1 vote)
- Yup, from the Mardi camera. And yeah it's kinda boring heh.(1 vote)