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A Primer on Curiosity
Posted on Aug 20, 2012 08:29:37 AM | John Entwistle | 3 Comments    |
NASA's new Mars rover Curiosity is resting safely on the surface of Red Planet after a daredevil landing that had the nation holding its breath. Now, mission scientists are anxious to start moving. Curiosity is bristling with instruments custom-made to look for the chemical building blocks of life.

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3 Comments so far ( Post your own )
3 On Aug 28, 2012 01:30:55 AM  Phil Canning  added a comment on your blog post. 

Why the chauvinistic arrogance of "only America". Man did this for mankind. Cold war is over!

2 On Aug 21, 2012 06:30:25 AM  Rick  added a comment on your blog post. 

Hello everyone, I am excited and pleased that Curiosity in on the ground after making a spectacular and complex landing like it did.

I do have a question about the software/firmware update that was just completed though that someone might be able to enlighten me on. I understand this procedure was required do to the limited amount of memory on-board. Would it not have been much safer to just include more memory on the rover then to undertake a potentially dangerous and risky operation like this?

Any information about this would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Rick
Wallingford, CT..

1 On Aug 20, 2012 04:49:17 PM  guest  added a comment on your blog post. 

Why do you repost nasa news items in this area? Posting other people's news is a waste of time, unless you add some value to it, and you're not.

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