Submission + - Curiosity Rover landed on Mars Safely and Started sending Images of Mars. (blogspot.in)
rtoz writes: "Nasa's has announced that Curiosity Rover has landed on Mars Safely.
Nasa Engineers celebrated this major achievement.
U.S President Barack Obama on Curiosity: "Tonight, on the planet Mars, the United States of America made history."
Soon after the landing, the first images came from Curiosity’s cameras, showing pebbles, dust, and the shadow of the rover on the surface of Mars.
It seems this thumbnail sized black and white image is just a test picture taken by the Cameras of Curiosity to test the Image taking and sending functionalists. We may expect high quality images later.
Over its two-year initial mission, Curiosity will drill, sample, and laser-shoot rocks on the Martian surface to figure out what minerals and elements they contain. In particular, the probe will search for organic carbon that could indicate fossilized life forms. Even more exciting, the rover will also sniff the Martian atmosphere for gasses such as methane that could be a sign of present-day life.
Curiosity was designed and built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Curiosity is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG).
The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission has four scientific goals:
1.Determine whether Mars could ever have supported life
2. Study the climate of Mars
3.Study the geology of Mars
4. Plan for a human mission to Mars"
Nasa Engineers celebrated this major achievement.
U.S President Barack Obama on Curiosity: "Tonight, on the planet Mars, the United States of America made history."
Soon after the landing, the first images came from Curiosity’s cameras, showing pebbles, dust, and the shadow of the rover on the surface of Mars.
It seems this thumbnail sized black and white image is just a test picture taken by the Cameras of Curiosity to test the Image taking and sending functionalists. We may expect high quality images later.
Over its two-year initial mission, Curiosity will drill, sample, and laser-shoot rocks on the Martian surface to figure out what minerals and elements they contain. In particular, the probe will search for organic carbon that could indicate fossilized life forms. Even more exciting, the rover will also sniff the Martian atmosphere for gasses such as methane that could be a sign of present-day life.
Curiosity was designed and built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Curiosity is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG).
The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission has four scientific goals:
1.Determine whether Mars could ever have supported life
2. Study the climate of Mars
3.Study the geology of Mars
4. Plan for a human mission to Mars"