Mark a historical planetary exploration, NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has become the first spacecraft after it’s on board drill deep enough into a Martian rock to collect stone powder samples for analysis. Read more
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Curiosity’s first test drive hits blockade: Faulty wind sensors
The $2.5 billion small car sized Nasa’s Curiosity took its test first drive on Martian surface of Mars on Wednesday, reported that during drive it is facing some problems due to damaging of its wind sensors with wires hitting roadblock on Mars.
A much disappointing, but minor problem will degrade some measurements, difficult to prevent them, as per Missions engineers, adding that the damage is resulted because of roadblock thrown up during Curiosity rover driving. Read more
Red Planet Curiosity set to hit early Monday
A Small car size, NASA’s 900-kg Curiosity spacecraft will set to hit Mars through the Martian atmosphere at 13,000mph on Monday, a great success in first manned Mars mission.
Human landing on Mars will be an International probe of rocks, soil samples and the local geological settings to detect Martian atmosphere for mankind in Red Planet whether it supports habitual environment or not. Read more
Countdown begins: Curiosity’s Landing on Red Planet
Curiosity will rock the world. Finally ending its journey, NASA’s robotic spacecraft Curiosity rover is landing toward Red Planet, Mars, hoping to give great and significant scientific results about the geological history of Mars.
Curiosity, launched on Nov. 26, 2011, is first step towards futuristic manned Mars missions, loaded with ingenious new instruments, facilitating knowledge of the environment, the radiation environment, the chemistry of the surface along with video images for the first time. Read more
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