Curiosity Rover Quotes

the Curiosity rover is working so hard to find evidence of water, so I figured we could make things easier for it.

Q. Your idea of the perfect day … A. Sleep in. Meet Buzz Aldrin for brunch. Head over to Jet Propulsion Lab and watch them control the Curiosity Mars rover. Dinner with the writing staff of Doctor Who.

The Mars rover Curiosity, for example, is powered by the heat from a chunk of plutonium it carries in a container on the end of a stick.

NASA, fortunately, has already tackled the oxygen problem. When it launches the successor to the Curiosity rover in 2020, it will carry a type of fuel cell that will turn Mars’s atmospheric CO2 into oxygen and carbon monoxide.

The Curiosity rover has confirmed and substantially expanded earlier findings that Mars was warmer and much wetter a long time ago.

Every year, the Mars Curiosity Rover sings happy birthday to itself on August 5th. The anniversary of its landing on Mars

The first of those, the preliminary design review, or PDR, usually takes place about four years, sometimes more, before the scheduled launch. The team has to convince the review board that it has solid concepts for all major aspects of the mission.

If I could relive that day, I would say, “We almost never get the design right on the first pass. We design a piece of the hardware, build it, test it, find out what’s not working the way it needs to, have it fixed, then test it again before integrating it into the spacecraft.

A project manager is the captain of the ship, the person responsible for making sure the project is on course and moving ahead smoothly. He or she is in charge of the schedule, and the allocation of money. But most of all, the project manager is responsible for maintaining relationships with the people providing the funds.

At a PDR, the team is expected to present a final or nearly final design of every element of the spacecraft. A thumbs-up from the review panel says, in effect, “Your designs look solid and we consider that the project is ready to be funded for building the spacecraft.” With a successful PDR, the project will then be “confirmed,” and NASA headquarters will provide enough funding to cover costs until the project is well along.

of penicillin showed that it could be a miracle cure. On the other hand, the world is full of disgusting stuff that you could smear on a wound, and most of them won’t make it better. Not all ridiculous ideas are good. So how do we tell the good ideas from the bad? We can try them and see what happens. But sometimes, we can use math, research, and things we already know to work out what will happen if we do. When NASA was planning to send its car-size Curiosity rover to Mars, they had to figure out how to land it gently on the surface. Previous rovers had landed using parachutes and air bags, so NASA engineers considered this approach with Curiosity, but the rover was too large and heavy for parachutes to slow it down enough in Mars’s thin atmosphere. They also thought about mounting rockets on the rover to let it hover and touch down gently, but the exhaust would create dust clouds that would obscure the surface and make it hard to land safely. Eventually, they came up with the idea of a “sky crane”—a vehicle that would hover high above the surface using rockets while lowering Curiosity to the ground on a long tether. This sounded like a ridiculous idea, but every other idea they

We don’t have GPS on Mars,” says Tomas Martin-Mur, an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who has done navigation work for several Mars missions, including the Mars Science Laboratory, the ambitious mission that brought the rover Curiosity to the red planet in 2012. Nor is there any GPS for the solar system, he adds, which would be a useful way to correct for the effects of solar radiation—just one of the many things that can send a spacecraft off-course. The only GPS we have is on Earth, so we’ve harnessed it for space travel.

You begin by going around the room, one person at a time, each speaking about what he or she says is the biggest problem for his/her team.

Tiger Team is a group of experts pulled together temporarily to tackle one specific problem.

A mountain on Mars may have built up over time from lake sediments, according to NASA scientists who have been studying observations from the Curiosity rover scouring the Red Planet. The latest analysis is based on rocks discovered at the lower edges of Mount Sharp, which is located, rather oddly, in the midst of a crater on Earth’s neighbouring planet. While scientists are still not sure how long Mars was wet for any given spell through history, a “great surprise” was finding slanted rocks and soil that point to the existence of a lake bed in the crater, said Curiosity project scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology. Curiosity’s pictures and data collected from the Martian soil in the lowest sedimentary layers of Mount Sharp has helped scientists see the remnants of how rivers once carried sand and silt to the lake, depositing sediment at the mouth of the river. This process would have repeated itself again and again to form a delta. Billions of years ago, the planet is believed to have been much warmer, with a thicker atmosphere that would have supported liquid water and potentially some form of life. — AFP

Joe reluctantly agreed to form a “Tiger Team” to rethink the whole sample-handling system—simpler, and with fewer motors. (For those unfamiliar with the term, a Tiger Team is a group of experts pulled together temporarily to tackle one specific problem. The term is said to come from a 1964 paper in which it was defined, tongue-in-cheek, as “a team of undomesticated and uninhibited technical specialists, selected for their experience, energy, and imagination, and assigned to track down relentlessly every possible source of failure in a spacecraft subsystem.”)

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