Curiosity is one of Earth’s most valuable probes when it comes to researching Mars. It is also arguably one of the most interesting and useful probes.The history, mission and design all make up curiosity.
The history of curiosity starts ruggedly when the $2.5 billion rover almost met its untimely end with an audacious landing. Due to its cumbersome weight NASA scientists had to create a different landing plan that that of the probes prior to it. Instead of using a simple parachute system it had to get rid of a heat shield and eventually abandon its parachute to complete the landing with rockets. Roughly 60 feet above the surface of Mars a crane emitted from the spacecraft to lower the rover to a gentle landing before colliding with Mars elsewhere. Curiosity had experienced no major problems since its launch from cape canaveral on November 26, 2011. This all changed in February 2013 when a glitch in the computer systems caused the probe to go into a safety mode for a short period of time. A long term concern is the condition of Curiosity’s wheels. This problem hasn’t been solved but rather delayed. When it reached the destination of Aeolis Mons, it was put to a slow ascend up the mountain to focus more on finding life and evaluating how mars fell into such an acidic state ( NAsa, ) …show more content…
That question is, is there life on Mars? Curiosity has been armed with the necessary tools to solve this continously pondered mystery. Along with the main mission of finding evidence of life , it also analyzes gases in Mars’s atmosphere ( Dunbar, date ). To find organic evidence and evidence of environments for life, it analyzes rock and soil. Curiosity is the first ever rover to be able to do this (Nasas,
The history of curiosity starts ruggedly when the $2.5 billion rover almost met its untimely end with an audacious landing. Due to its cumbersome weight NASA scientists had to create a different landing plan that that of the probes prior to it. Instead of using a simple parachute system it had to get rid of a heat shield and eventually abandon its parachute to complete the landing with rockets. Roughly 60 feet above the surface of Mars a crane emitted from the spacecraft to lower the rover to a gentle landing before colliding with Mars elsewhere. Curiosity had experienced no major problems since its launch from cape canaveral on November 26, 2011. This all changed in February 2013 when a glitch in the computer systems caused the probe to go into a safety mode for a short period of time. A long term concern is the condition of Curiosity’s wheels. This problem hasn’t been solved but rather delayed. When it reached the destination of Aeolis Mons, it was put to a slow ascend up the mountain to focus more on finding life and evaluating how mars fell into such an acidic state ( NAsa, ) …show more content…
That question is, is there life on Mars? Curiosity has been armed with the necessary tools to solve this continously pondered mystery. Along with the main mission of finding evidence of life , it also analyzes gases in Mars’s atmosphere ( Dunbar, date ). To find organic evidence and evidence of environments for life, it analyzes rock and soil. Curiosity is the first ever rover to be able to do this (Nasas,