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Curious about Curiosity? Mars…the new frontier in space exploration

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) aka “Curiosity” Purpose: To discover the “habitability” of Mars, either in the past or the present i.e. Assessing whether Mars did or ever could support small life, such as microbes How will it do it? It carries the biggest, most advanced suite of instruments for scientific studies ever sent to the Martian surface. Will analyze samples scooped from the soil and drilled from rocks

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) aka “Curiosity” Why study the rocks and soil? The record of the planet's climate and geology is essentially "written in the rocks and soil" – formation, structure, and chemical composition. The rover's onboard laboratory will study rocks, soils, and the local geologic setting in order to detect chemical building blocks of life (e.g., forms of carbon)

MSL aka Curiosity The most technologically advanced rover to explore Mars Entry, descent and landing (EDL) sequence: 1. Heat Shield 2. Parachute 3. Powered descent (with rockets) 4. Skycrane

Curiosity’s EDL Curiosity's Landing

7 Minutes of Terror MSL's 7 Minutes of Terror Explained

How Curiosity Will Explore Curiosity Exploring Mars

Interesting Tidbits Curiosity was designed and built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA Launched from Earth on7:02 a.m. PST, Nov. 26, 2011 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida Landed safely and as planned on Aug. 5th, 2012 at 10:32pm PST (technically Aug. 6th, Universally) The holes in its wheels spell out “JPL” in Morse Code when making tracks It’s power supply is a radioisotope generator of plutonium (i.e. it is nuclear powered)

Why Should You Care? You are living through one of the greatest eras extraterrestrial exploration, specifically Martian exploration It is likely that sometime during your lifetime, there may be a Mars sample return mission, and possibly even human flight to Mars Most importantly, YOU could be among the future engineers and scientists who would be involved in missions like that!

My Experiences Went to an MSL landing event at the Pasadena Civic Center Event was hosted by Bill Nye (“The Science Guy”)

Sources and Links http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/overview/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJg6OC56Jpw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4boyXQuUIw&feature=relmfu