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Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain


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NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has reached the Red Planet's Mount Sharp, a Mount-Rainier-size mountain at the center of the vast Gale Crater and the rover mission's long-term prime destination.

"Curiosity now will begin a new chapter from an already outstanding introduction to the world," said Jim Green, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "After a historic and innovative landing along with its successful science discoveries, the scientific sequel is upon us.

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We made it! Curiosity reaches Mount Sharp

After 2 years and nearly 9 kilometers of driving, NASA's Mars Curiosity has arrived at the base of Mount Sharp.

Credit: NASA/JPL

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We made it! Curiosity reaches Mount Sharp

After 2 years and nearly 9 kilometers of driving,

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damn thing drives like my mam!

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So 45 years ago with analog technology and a computer that couldn't even power a Nintendo DS, NASA basically drove a car on the moon and astronauts hit golf balls. Someone please explain WTFACK has happened? Shouldn't we have hotels on Mars by now??

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So 45 years ago with analog technology and a computer that couldn't even power a Nintendo DS, NASA basically drove a car on the moon and astronauts hit golf balls. Someone please explain WTFACK has happened? Shouldn't we have hotels on Mars by now??

Lack of funding is what happened.

Why do people have so much difficulty understanding the simple concept that if you don't pay for something it doesn't happen?

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So with 3 billion dollars it only takes 2 years to drive 9 kilometres on Mars or in other worlds 10 meters / day? Can i say that science is truly done with snail steps. Wth?

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So 45 years ago with analog technology and a computer that couldn't even power a Nintendo DS, NASA basically drove a car on the moon and astronauts hit golf balls. Someone please explain WTFACK has happened? Shouldn't we have hotels on Mars by now??

Please go to this very simple but very well done website http://www.distancetomars.com/ that will hopefully clear up the big difference between traveling to Mars and traveling to the Moon.

So with 3 billion dollars it only takes 2 years to drive 9 kilometres on Mars or in other worlds 10 meters / day? Can i say that science is truly done with snail steps. Wth?

I try and be nice to you but this is simply stupid. Curiosity has been doing science on its trip to Sharp, in fact it has pretty much accomplished its mission already. Check out this website and maybe you'll start to comprehend what has been happening on Mars with Curiosity

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/explore/curiosity/ Unity web player is legit and safe.

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So with 3 billion dollars it only takes 2 years to drive 9 kilometres on Mars or in other worlds 10 meters / day? Can i say that science is truly done with snail steps. Wth?

it's not a race. why the rush?

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avg. of 39' a day. Sounds weird to me.

So exactly how fast should a rover, which has to navigate autonomously and which stops for days or weeks at a time to do science, travel across the surface of a largely unexplored and potentially hazardous alien planet?

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