Curiosity is a rover vehicle that goes in the mission of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). Mission to the Red Planet as a whole has to cost up to $ 2, 5 billion and will spend time traveling for 8.5 months to get to Mars, with the distance of 352 million miles.
Curiosity The launch took place on Saturday at 15:02 local time by using the Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canveral Air Force Station Florida.
Browsing this time equipped with nuclear power, the robot arm and a few instruments that use advanced technology. Choriosity which is a mobile laboratory devices are expected to explore Mars for two years looking for organic compounds and other signs of life in the past or present, that exist in the area of Gale crater.
The mission this time is more complex and highly scientific nature. NASA promised to increase understanding of each person will secarah Mars and the planet's initial formation, as well as finding an environmentally friendly raw materials for human life.
"We are ready to land on the Martian surface and this makes us very happy. I am very enthusiastic wait Curiosity landed on Mars and get something that we're looking for," said John Grotzinger, Scientist developers MSL mission, told ZD Net, Sunday (27/11 / 2011).
"We have started a new era in Mars exploration, not just technology but also scientifically," he continued.
"I hope we can work much better than the scientists to actually get a lot of knowledge on Mars. After we had landed on its surface, I hope to get a lot of information that has not been obtained," he concluded.
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