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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11509497" data-attributes="member: 92282">NASA Curiosity <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/NASA_logo.svg/120px-NASA_logo.svg.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> ++ add rep if you like the post <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/D.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" data-shortname=":D" /> NASA's Curiosity is on a nine-month trip to the planet Mars. The $2.3 billion mission will  send a capsule into the Martian sky in August of 2012. After  decelerating in the atmosphere, a series of entry events will quickly  take place, ending with a rocket-powered sky crane lowering the rover  gently to the surface. Curiosity is a beast of a rover, weighing one  ton, measuring ten feet long by seven feet tall (at the top of the  mast), and powered by a plutonium-238 fueled electrical generator. The  rover carries ten instruments, including several high-resolution  cameras, and a laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy instrument called  ChemCam that can vaporize tiny amounts of minerals and analyze their  components. If all goes according to plan, Curiosity is scheduled for a  stay on Mars of about 668 Martian sols, or nearly two Earth years,  starting in Gale crater. Researchers hope to use the tools on Curiosity  to study whether the area in Gale crater has had environmental  conditions favorable for supporting microbial life and for preserving  clues about whether life existed. <img src="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/msl112511/s_m01_574110ma.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity. <img src="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/msl112511/s_m02_-L-02056.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/msl112511/s_m03_328234ma.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The parachute for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory passed flight-qualification testing. <img src="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/msl112511/s_m04_PIA13599.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Researchers prepare for a test of the Chemistry and  Camera (ChemCam) instrument that will fly on NASA's Mars Science  Laboratory mission. <img src="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/msl112511/s_m05_PIA13397.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/msl112511/s_m06_ED10-010.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </blockquote>

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