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An expert's guide to
Mars rover, Curiosity.
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Curiosity is going to include
a whole suite of instruments
to help us analyze Mars
including some cameras,
which are mounted on the
very top of the rover,
that will allow us to
take nice high-definition,
color video images of
Mars and its landscape.
As well as, a microscopic
imager on the end
of a seven-foot long arm that
will allow us to take nice,
small, close-up images
of rocks and samples.
Also, it's going to have a drill
to be able to drill into rocks
to gather samples of
the rock material inside
of the rocks itself, and
a suite of instruments
to analyze those samples.
For example, CheMin which
is going to shine x-rays
at the rocks to be able to
figure out the mineralogy
of the rocks, the
chemicals inside of it,
and another instrument
called SAM, which we can heat
up the samples and actually
kind of boil out the gases
and chemicals, analyze that,
and look for organic materials.
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Be sure to tell your teacher
to visit the NASA Explorer
Schools Virtual Campus.
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