Curiosity To Mars

NASA's Mars Science Laborary (MSL) spacecraft launched today aboard the Plan V rocket. The affair is slated to state at the red planet adjacent Honored 2012. It includes the new Unusual person traveler, the world's main extraterrestrial pioneer. The landing of this boundless traveler incentive be fresh than that of Pathfinder, Boldness, and Overwhelm which relied on airbags to safeguard their landing. The traveler incentive be lowered to the plate passing through cables accessory from at rocket powered "sky crank" and after that use landing rockets to get it gentle to the plate. Unusual person is the importance of a car (10 feet want and 9 feet considerable) and is actual too big and overweight to get to the plate passing through airbags. The traveler incentive get away from at negligible two time exploring the Tempest Nook, a site booming in minerals and a inborn separate to walk evidence of earlier life. Unusual person carries a order, a stone-zapping laser, 10 exact instruments, and cameras all aimed to see whether Mars may have a meal similar to been inviting for microbial life. It poverty be enthralling to see what it finds!

Here's a video of the launch:

And an life from JPL about the rover's landing and function:

Search the Mars Science Laboratory Fling Subordinate over at the NASA website.

The New York Times: "NASA Launches Sofisticated Rover on Pester to Mars"

The Telegraph: "Unusual person the Nasa space traveler solidify for endeavor for Mars"

Time: "NASA Launches 'Curiosity' Rover to Mars"

UPDATE: Honored 6, 2012

Unusual person has landed!

Donate is the first color image from the Unusual person rover:

Mt. Sarcastic, the unsophisticated science saturation bombing, as well as Curiosity's aloofness in the foreground.