You know by now my desire for you to find the wonder in science: the origin of the universe, multi-generational space travel, life on other planets, even the confluence of doomsday theories for 12.21.2012. So has your curiosity been piqued yet?
Scientists spend their lives exploring the unknown, searching for clues that might lead to the answers. Just such a quest is about to begin this week! The Curiosity Rover, pictured above is set to launch from Cape Canaveral this Saturday (11/26) at 10:02 am. Its mission to Mars will try to answer the question, “Is there life out there?”. Read more ….
Was the rover built at JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab)?
JPL certainly played a role in the development and monitoring of Curiosity (Mars Science Laboratory). Check out their site at
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/
With NASA launching a spacecraft to Jupiter and other numerous probes exploring various areas of our solar system, let’s just say that NASA has expanded its operations of exploring and this Mars mission may be the key to finding life on that planet. I’m pretty sure that the rover will do its task well. Now if we could only put a few humans on Mars…
I am curious looks pretty intesting i’ ll like to hear more inform.
Twitter update from Curiosity
@MarsCuriosity
Curiosity Rover
Road trip to Mars! 332.8 million miles left to go in the next 242 days. What songs should be on my travel playlist? #MSL