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NASA Mar's Rover 'Curiosity' Information and Conversation Thread
by Admin Sun Aug 12, 2012 4:45 pm
Since NASA has landed the rover "Curiosity" on Mars-this can be the thread where we can all post everything about this amazing mission! The data retrieved from this amazing 'rolling science lab' robot will change the history of what humankind has had in the way of knowledge of life extraterrestrially as well as the possibility of creating a human civilization on the red planet!
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This slide show takes a look at the Curiosity rover from a simulation perspective as well as some up-close images of the unit
by Admin Sun Aug 12, 2012 5:04 pm
NASA's Curiosity: How Java, Other Tech Powered the Latest Mars Mission
By Darryl K. Taft on 2012-08-10
While NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity successfully landed on the Red Planet, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is offering mere mortals a chance at experiencing their own Mars landing with a Java-powered simulator. The JPL's Java-based simulator, known as Eyes on the Solar System, takes users through the details of the landing procedure that NASA officials have termed the "Seven Minutes of Terror." The Web-based simulator is available to anyone with a browser and enables users to go back and forward in time to get a better sense of what the Curiosity mission is like. NASA said the one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft that carried Curiosity succeeded in every step of the most complex landing ever attempted on Mars, including the final severing of the bridle cords and flyaway maneuver of the rocket backpack. This slide show takes a look at the Curiosity rover from a simulation perspective as well as some up-close images of the unit.
>From the slideshow:
Here’s a look at the various stages of the Curiosity landing process.
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Robot and Chemist
This artist's concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life. In this picture, the rover examines a rock on Mars with a set of tools at the end of the rover's arm, which extends about 7 feet (2 meters). Two instruments on the arm can study rocks up close. A drill can collect sample material from inside rocks and a scoop can pick up samples of soil. The arm can sieve the samples and deliver fine powder to instruments inside the rover for thorough analysis.
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Curiosity at Work on Mars
This artist's concept depicts the rover Curiosity, of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, as it uses its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument to investigate the composition of a rock surface. ChemCam fires laser pulses at a target and views the resulting spark with a telescope and spectrometers to identify chemical elements. The laser is actually in an invisible infrared wavelength, but is shown here as visible red light for purposes of illustration
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Daybreak at Gale Center
This computer-generated view depicts part of Mars at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with an area including Gale Crater beginning to catch morning light. Gale Crater looms in the distance, distinguished from adjacent craters by its central mountain of strata. Gale Crater straddles the dichotomy boundary of Mars, which separates the broad, flat and young northern plains from the much older and rougher southern highlands. There is evidence that water may have flowed across this topographic boundary, from highland to lowland, perhaps pooling locally within Gale Crater and forming the lowermost strata that fill the crater.
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Curiosity Launch Vehicle
This is an artist concept of the Atlas V541 launch vehicle that will carry NASA's Curiosity rover on its way to Mars. The Atlas V 541 vehicle was selected for the Mars Science Laboratory mission because it has the right liftoff capability for the heavy weight requirements of the rover and its spacecraft. The launch vehicle will provide the velocity needed by the spacecraft to escape Earth's gravity and set it on its course for Mars. Atlas V rockets are expendable launch vehicles (ELVs), which means they are only used once.
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Mars Science Laboratory Spacecraft During Cruise
This is an artist's concept of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft during its cruise phase between launch and final approach to Mars. The spacecraft includes a disk-shaped cruise stage (on the left) attached to the "aeroshell." The spacecraft's rover (Curiosity) and descent stage are tucked inside the aeroshell.
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Curiosity Approaching Mars
This is an artist's concept of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft approaching Mars
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Curiosity Inside Aeroshell
This is an artist's concept of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory aeroshell capsule as it enters the Martian atmosphere. The Curiosity rover and the spacecraft's descent stage are safely tucked inside the aeroshell at this point.
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Mars Science Laboratory Guided Entry at Mars
This artist's concept shows thrusters firing during the entry, descent and landing phase for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission to Mars.
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Deceleration of Mars Science Laboratory in Martian Atmosphere
This artist's concept depicts the interaction of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft with the upper atmosphere of Mars during the entry, descent and landing of the Curiosity rover onto the Martian surface.
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Mars Science Laboratory Parachute
This is an artist's concept of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover parachute system
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Mars Science Laboratory Parachute
This is an artist's concept of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover parachute system.
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Curiosity and Descent Stage
This is an artist's concept of the rover and descent stage for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft during the final minute before the rover Curiosity touches down on the surface of Mars.
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Curiosity's Sky Crane Maneuver
This artist's concept shows the sky crane maneuver during the descent of NASA's Curiosity rover to the Martian surface.
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Curiosity Touching Down
This artist's concept depicts the moment that NASA's Curiosity rover touches down onto the Martian surface.
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A Moment After Curiosity's Touchdown
This artist's concept depicts the moment immediately after NASA's Curiosity rover touches down onto the Martian surface.
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Curiosity: The Next Mars Rover
This artist concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Curiosity is being tested in preparation for launch in the fall of 2011. In this picture, the rover examines a rock on Mars with a set of tools at the end of the rover's arm.
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Mars Rover Curiosity in Artist's Concept, Close-Up
This artist concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Curiosity is being tested in preparation for launch in the fall of 2011.
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Mars Rover Curiosity in Artist's Concept, Wide
This artist concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Integrated Payload
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, all spacecraft elements of the Mars Science Laboratory mission have come together. The top portion is the cruise stage; next, the aeroshell (containing the compact car-sized rover, Curiosity); and on the bottom, the heat shield.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Tucked in for Flight
An overhead crane is attached to the heat shield for the Mars Science Laboratory mission in preparation for integration with the aeroshell, containing the rover Curiosity. Earlier, the aeroshell was mated to the cruise stage, which provides solar power, thrusters for navigation, and heat exchangers to the rover during its flight from Earth to Mars.
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Cruise Stage in Place
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission cruise stage has been mated to the aeroshell, which contains the compact car-sized rover Curiosity. The cruise stage provides solar power, thrusters for navigation and heat exchangers to the rover during its flight from Earth to Mars.
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Back Shell in Place
The back shell, a protective cover that carries the parachute and several components used during later stages of entry, descent and landing, has been lowered into place over NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity
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By Darryl K. Taft on 2012-08-10
While NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity successfully landed on the Red Planet, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is offering mere mortals a chance at experiencing their own Mars landing with a Java-powered simulator. The JPL's Java-based simulator, known as Eyes on the Solar System, takes users through the details of the landing procedure that NASA officials have termed the "Seven Minutes of Terror." The Web-based simulator is available to anyone with a browser and enables users to go back and forward in time to get a better sense of what the Curiosity mission is like. NASA said the one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft that carried Curiosity succeeded in every step of the most complex landing ever attempted on Mars, including the final severing of the bridle cords and flyaway maneuver of the rocket backpack. This slide show takes a look at the Curiosity rover from a simulation perspective as well as some up-close images of the unit.
>From the slideshow:
Here’s a look at the various stages of the Curiosity landing process.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Robot and Chemist
This artist's concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life. In this picture, the rover examines a rock on Mars with a set of tools at the end of the rover's arm, which extends about 7 feet (2 meters). Two instruments on the arm can study rocks up close. A drill can collect sample material from inside rocks and a scoop can pick up samples of soil. The arm can sieve the samples and deliver fine powder to instruments inside the rover for thorough analysis.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Curiosity at Work on Mars
This artist's concept depicts the rover Curiosity, of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, as it uses its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument to investigate the composition of a rock surface. ChemCam fires laser pulses at a target and views the resulting spark with a telescope and spectrometers to identify chemical elements. The laser is actually in an invisible infrared wavelength, but is shown here as visible red light for purposes of illustration
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Daybreak at Gale Center
This computer-generated view depicts part of Mars at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with an area including Gale Crater beginning to catch morning light. Gale Crater looms in the distance, distinguished from adjacent craters by its central mountain of strata. Gale Crater straddles the dichotomy boundary of Mars, which separates the broad, flat and young northern plains from the much older and rougher southern highlands. There is evidence that water may have flowed across this topographic boundary, from highland to lowland, perhaps pooling locally within Gale Crater and forming the lowermost strata that fill the crater.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Curiosity Launch Vehicle
This is an artist concept of the Atlas V541 launch vehicle that will carry NASA's Curiosity rover on its way to Mars. The Atlas V 541 vehicle was selected for the Mars Science Laboratory mission because it has the right liftoff capability for the heavy weight requirements of the rover and its spacecraft. The launch vehicle will provide the velocity needed by the spacecraft to escape Earth's gravity and set it on its course for Mars. Atlas V rockets are expendable launch vehicles (ELVs), which means they are only used once.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] m/images/stories/slideshows/044812_marscuriosity2/05.jpg
Mars Science Laboratory Spacecraft During Cruise
This is an artist's concept of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft during its cruise phase between launch and final approach to Mars. The spacecraft includes a disk-shaped cruise stage (on the left) attached to the "aeroshell." The spacecraft's rover (Curiosity) and descent stage are tucked inside the aeroshell.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Curiosity Approaching Mars
This is an artist's concept of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft approaching Mars
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Curiosity Inside Aeroshell
This is an artist's concept of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory aeroshell capsule as it enters the Martian atmosphere. The Curiosity rover and the spacecraft's descent stage are safely tucked inside the aeroshell at this point.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Mars Science Laboratory Guided Entry at Mars
This artist's concept shows thrusters firing during the entry, descent and landing phase for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission to Mars.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Deceleration of Mars Science Laboratory in Martian Atmosphere
This artist's concept depicts the interaction of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft with the upper atmosphere of Mars during the entry, descent and landing of the Curiosity rover onto the Martian surface.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Mars Science Laboratory Parachute
This is an artist's concept of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover parachute system
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Mars Science Laboratory Parachute
This is an artist's concept of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover parachute system.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Curiosity and Descent Stage
This is an artist's concept of the rover and descent stage for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft during the final minute before the rover Curiosity touches down on the surface of Mars.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Curiosity's Sky Crane Maneuver
This artist's concept shows the sky crane maneuver during the descent of NASA's Curiosity rover to the Martian surface.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Curiosity Touching Down
This artist's concept depicts the moment that NASA's Curiosity rover touches down onto the Martian surface.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
A Moment After Curiosity's Touchdown
This artist's concept depicts the moment immediately after NASA's Curiosity rover touches down onto the Martian surface.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Curiosity: The Next Mars Rover
This artist concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Curiosity is being tested in preparation for launch in the fall of 2011. In this picture, the rover examines a rock on Mars with a set of tools at the end of the rover's arm.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Mars Rover Curiosity in Artist's Concept, Close-Up
This artist concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Curiosity is being tested in preparation for launch in the fall of 2011.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Mars Rover Curiosity in Artist's Concept, Wide
This artist concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Integrated Payload
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, all spacecraft elements of the Mars Science Laboratory mission have come together. The top portion is the cruise stage; next, the aeroshell (containing the compact car-sized rover, Curiosity); and on the bottom, the heat shield.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Tucked in for Flight
An overhead crane is attached to the heat shield for the Mars Science Laboratory mission in preparation for integration with the aeroshell, containing the rover Curiosity. Earlier, the aeroshell was mated to the cruise stage, which provides solar power, thrusters for navigation, and heat exchangers to the rover during its flight from Earth to Mars.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Cruise Stage in Place
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission cruise stage has been mated to the aeroshell, which contains the compact car-sized rover Curiosity. The cruise stage provides solar power, thrusters for navigation and heat exchangers to the rover during its flight from Earth to Mars.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Back Shell in Place
The back shell, a protective cover that carries the parachute and several components used during later stages of entry, descent and landing, has been lowered into place over NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
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Re: NASA Mar's Rover 'Curiosity' Information and Conversation Thread
by midangerous Sun Aug 12, 2012 5:05 pm
So cool Admin!
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Re: NASA Mar's Rover 'Curiosity' Information and Conversation Thread
by Admin Sun Aug 12, 2012 5:07 pm
@midangerous: You got us started on this! I will move your comments to this thread to keep everything together-thanks for starting this idea! 
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Re: NASA Mar's Rover 'Curiosity' Information and Conversation Thread
by Capricious Anomaly Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:16 pm
I will be happy to participate in this! I will help post new info too!
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Re: NASA Mar's Rover 'Curiosity' Information and Conversation Thread
by midangerous Sat Aug 18, 2012 10:50 pm
I watched a show on the science channel, and they were talking about how Curiosity works, it's even going to collect samples!
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Re: NASA Mar's Rover 'Curiosity' Information and Conversation Thread
by midangerous Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:47 pm
On Sol 65 (Oct. 11, 2012) of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed several activities in preparation for collecting its second scoop of soil. Like the first scoop, the next will come from a ripple of sand and dust at "Rocknest," and will be used for cleaning interior surfaces of the sample-handling chambers on the arm.
The Collection and Handling for In-Situ Martian Rock Analysis (CHIMRA) tool on the end of arm shook out remnants of the first scoopful and posed for camera inspection to verify it was emptied. The Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) moved close some loose material on the ground to get a good look. Seeing more detail in the object will help engineers finish assessing whether this loose material from the spacecraft poses any concern for future operations. A raw image from that MAHLI activity is at [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] .
Sol 65, in Mars local mean solar time at Gale Crater, will end at 2:22 a.m. Oct. 12, PDT (5:22 a.m., EDT).
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The Collection and Handling for In-Situ Martian Rock Analysis (CHIMRA) tool on the end of arm shook out remnants of the first scoopful and posed for camera inspection to verify it was emptied. The Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) moved close some loose material on the ground to get a good look. Seeing more detail in the object will help engineers finish assessing whether this loose material from the spacecraft poses any concern for future operations. A raw image from that MAHLI activity is at [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] .
Sol 65, in Mars local mean solar time at Gale Crater, will end at 2:22 a.m. Oct. 12, PDT (5:22 a.m., EDT).
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