The NASA's space vehicle for inquiring about life outside Earth, the Curiosity rover landed successfully on Mars.
It has beamed 3 high resolution color photographs to Earth to share the secrets of the planet.
The spacecraft plunged through Mars' atmosphere, fired up a rocket-powered platform and lowered the car-sized, 1-ton Curiosity rover to its landing spot in 96-mile-wide (154-kilometer-wide) Gale Crater. The first signals were relayed by the orbiting Mars Odyssey satellite back to Earth within seconds.
It was traveling at a speed of 20,000 KM when it was separated from the space launching vehicle.Then the speed of the rover was reduced to 60 cm by the parachutes and Sky Crane.
The mission managers and scientists of NASA's JPL,applauded with cheers when the curiosity successfully overcame the "seven minutes of terror."
It have sent low-resolution black and white resolution pictures to Earth. In the coming days, it will be sending color pictures also along with minute Mars details.
Curiosity is NASA's 4th rover to MARS.The rover's prime target is a 3-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) mountain inside the crater, known as Aeolis Mons or Mount Sharp. Its 10 scientific instruments are designed to study the chemistry of Mars' rocks, soil and atmosphere and determine whether the Red Planet had the right stuff to be habitable in ancient times.
It is a 2.5 billion $ project designed to work for almost 2 years. The plutonium battery is having a life span of around 14 years.
It has beamed 3 high resolution color photographs to Earth to share the secrets of the planet.
The spacecraft plunged through Mars' atmosphere, fired up a rocket-powered platform and lowered the car-sized, 1-ton Curiosity rover to its landing spot in 96-mile-wide (154-kilometer-wide) Gale Crater. The first signals were relayed by the orbiting Mars Odyssey satellite back to Earth within seconds.
It was traveling at a speed of 20,000 KM when it was separated from the space launching vehicle.Then the speed of the rover was reduced to 60 cm by the parachutes and Sky Crane.
The mission managers and scientists of NASA's JPL,applauded with cheers when the curiosity successfully overcame the "seven minutes of terror."
It have sent low-resolution black and white resolution pictures to Earth. In the coming days, it will be sending color pictures also along with minute Mars details.
Curiosity is NASA's 4th rover to MARS.The rover's prime target is a 3-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) mountain inside the crater, known as Aeolis Mons or Mount Sharp. Its 10 scientific instruments are designed to study the chemistry of Mars' rocks, soil and atmosphere and determine whether the Red Planet had the right stuff to be habitable in ancient times.
It is a 2.5 billion $ project designed to work for almost 2 years. The plutonium battery is having a life span of around 14 years.
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