Posts Tagged ‘Curiosity’
Science: Checking Out The Scene, On Mars, With Footage From The Curiosity Rover (Video)
February 1, 2018
‘White-balanced’ eh? Okay, so the video was touched up a bit. Still, imagine: There is an Earth vehicle roaming Mars… now… looking around… for topography and perhaps proof of life.
Curiosity Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada gives a descriptive tour of the Mars rover’s view in Gale Crater. The white-balanced scene looks back over the journey so far. The view from “Vera Rubin Ridge” looks back over buttes, dunes and other features along the route.
– NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Challenges Of Getting To Mars: Curiosity’s 7 Minutes Of Terror (Video)
August 6, 2012
With the recent success of NASA landing the Curiousity Rover on Mars, we were reminded by Jose3030 of just what it took for NASA to make the mission a complete success. In the above video Team members at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory share the challenges of the Curiosity Mars rover’s final minutes to landing on the surface of Mars. Although there was no real physical terror for any person involved with this mission, the real terror would have been if it had failed considering over $2 Billion invested dollars was on the line with the project.
READ: MARS ROVER ‘CURIOSITY’ LANDS ON THE RED PLANET
Aaron Hall – ‘Curiosity’ feat. Redman (Marley Marl Remix)
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