Mars Science Laboratory - 2009-03-27

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Mars Science Laboratory - 2009-03-27 This animation demonstrates how the rover will enter, descend and land on the surface of Mars. Mars Exploration Rover Mission: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.... Y...

Mars Science Laboratory - 2009-03-27
This animation demonstrates how the rover will enter, descend and land on the surface of Mars.

Mars Exploration Rover Mission:
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NASA's twin robot geologists, the Mars Exploration Rovers, launched toward Mars on June 10 and July 7, 2003, in search of answers about the history of water on Mars. They landed on Mars January 3 and January 24 PST, 2004 (January 4 and January 25 UTC, 2004).

Primary among the mission's scientific goals is to search for and characterize a wide range of rocks and soils that hold clues to past water activity on Mars. The spacecraft are targeted to sites on opposite sides of Mars that appear to have been affected by liquid water in the past. The landing sites are at Gusev Crater, a possible former lake in a giant impact crater, and Meridiani Planum, where mineral deposits (hematite) suggest Mars had a wet past.

After the airbag-protected landing craft settled onto the surface and opened, the rovers rolled out to take panoramic images. These images give scientists the information they need to select promising geological targets that tell part of the story of water in Mars' past. Then, the rovers drive to those locations to perform on-site scientific investigations.

Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Overview:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/

The rovers offer unique contributions in pursuit of the overall Mars science strategy to "Follow the Water." Understanding the history of water on Mars is important to meeting the four science goals of NASA's long-term Mars Exploration Program:

Determine whether Life ever arose on Mars
Characterize the Climate of Mars
Characterize the Geology of Mars
Prepare for Human Exploration

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
http://astronomy2009.nasa.gov/

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
"Do not go where the path may lead," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail." That could be the motto of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Trailblazing has been the business of JPL since it was established by the California Institute of Technology in the 1930s. America's first satellite, Explorer 1 which launched in 1958, was created at JPL. In the decades that followed, we sent the first robotic craft to the moon and out across the solar system, reconnoitering all of the planets. Pushing the outer edge of exploration, in fact, is the reason JPL exists as a NASA laboratory.
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