Curiosity's final scientific instrument gets up and running.
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Sixty-eight minutes, two dozen scientists, two hours of science. Decisions must be made.
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Curiosity's science team identified its first destination: Glenelg, a site where three types of terrain converge, offering a lot of bang for the team’s scientific buck.
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Mars rovers, by definition, rove. That’s kind of the point: to spin the wheels and carry scientific instruments across the landscape, facilitating the investigation of martian geology.
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The Mars Science Laboratory mission transitioned from one of the most impressive engineering feats in space exploration history to a scientific mission with enormous potential for discovery.
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In one corner of the Mars Science Laboratory mission operations floor, computer projectors beam constantly updating color-coded charts onto four large screens that cover the walls.
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Some of the most remarkable images of Curiosity released so far have come not from the seventeen cameras onboard the rover but from one traveling 300 kilometers overhead.
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Over the last nine months, Curiosity has been through a lot: the trauma of launch, the frigid vacuum of space, and the turbulent descent through the martian atmosphere.
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The Mars Science Laboratory science team tries to pin the tail on the landing site.
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At 12:20 a.m., after a jubilant press conference had been dismissed, after Will.i.am and Morgan Freeman had retreated to Hollywood, and after the pop-up gift shops had stopped selling Mars Science Lab
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Entry, Descent, and Landing is a stressful process for everyone, spiked with “seven minutes of terror” and its attendant grey hairs. But, enduring the tension as the head scientist of a tent-pole Mars mission is an entirely different experience.
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“Where will you be watching Curiosity’s landing?” That’s the question floating around Pasadena today, in hotel lobbies and coffee shops, as an estimated 15,000 people have descended
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As Curiosity hurtles toward its landing site at Gale Crater, the Entry, Descent, and Landing team has taken center stage.
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The pre-landing frenzy is in full force down on the JPL mall, where countdown clocks tick away and a fountain provides dramatic percussion, like a constant Mission Impossible soundtrack.
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