Hello Everyone
I am Daniela Titan
And today we are going to talk about something
that every human should be proud of!
The Mars Rover called Curiosity!
It has huge implications for what is achievable
by humankind when we work together... and
more importantly, it's SO CUTE!!!!
This vehicle is 3 meters long and it weighs
900 kilos!
It is huge compered to the previous ones since
the previous ones were half that length and
they weighed 174 kilos!
It was launched on November 26th of 2011 and
it just landed recently on August the 6th
That took you a while..
It will send us a feed of photos of everything
it does and sees!
Here is the first image it took!
...ON MARS!
It said it would aim to send bigger, color
pictures from Mars later this week once it's
got its head up & Mastcam active - no seriously,
it said that from its twitter?
Follow it I did!
Landing a huge mass on Mars is really difficult
because of the atmosphere.
It is too thin to use parachutes or aerobraking
alone but it is thick enough to cause problems
when decelerating with rockets.
Although some previous missions used airbags
to cushion the shock of landing,you can't
do that with Curiosity because it's too big.
So they used a unique mechanism that used
a parachute and a sky crane attached with
rockets.
And incidentally, after curiosity landed on
Mars, My cat started to do something really
unusual
So what's the purpose of this attempt?
The Mars Science Laboratory has four main
goals
(the Curiosity mission is actually included
here) :
1Determine if Mars had ever supported life.
2Study the climate of Mars.
3Study the geology of Mars.
4Plan for a human mission on Mars.
And just in case if NASA needs someone for
the human Mars mission, I have to suggest
that I am the ideal person!
I take hardly any space, and I have my own
space goggles!
The Curiosity itself has six main scientific
objectives:
1.Determine the mineralogical composition
of the Martian surface and near-surface geological
materials.
2.Attempt to detect chemical building blocks
of life
Ooh!A building block!
3.Interpret the processes that have formed
and modified rocks and soils.
It was definitely aliens!
4.Assess a 4-billion-year Martian atmospheric
evolution processes.
5.Determine present state, distribution, and
cycling of water and carbon dioxide.
What?
Cycling of water?
6.Characterize the broad spectrum of surface
radiation, including galactic radiation, cosmic
radiation, solar proton events and secondary
neutrons.
No-one cares about primary neutrons
The curiosity is supposed to explore for at
least 1 year but the limit of its parts are
four years!
I don't know if they did it on purpose but
that's the life span of a common house mouse
The cost for this was $2.5 billion,
which is quite a lot.
But I think they can make it back by selling
cuddly toy versions of curiosity, I'd like
three please!
So that's all!
And I hope I was helpful
You can always ask me another interesting
question so I can define it for you, in the
comments.
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Bye! :3
Byeee! xD
