Anyone could have joined in the the Curiosity Rover Mission, and I'm really sad that I missed it :-(((( Just keep and eye out for future NASA Rover Missions!

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That's really neat. I'm sorry I missed that.

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That is really cool. Congrats.

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My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

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."

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/september/nasa-s-mars-curiosity-rover-arrives-at-martian-mountain/index.html#.VBI31RZFrz8

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Thanks Lynn , Lets hope the problem with the wheels does not get any worse and effect it now it at the mountain .

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Thanx for the update Lynn:)

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A good update for this thread would be a detailed list of what accomplishments in the way of discovery that this rover has achieved.

A good update for this thread would be a detailed list of what accomplishments in the way of discovery that this rover has achieved.

Here it is:
Curiosity
Tullio

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NASA Rover Drill Pulls First Taste From Mars Mountain

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has collected its first taste of the layered mountain whose scientific allure drew the mission to choose this part of Mars as a landing site.

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/msl/nasa-rover-drill-pulls-first-taste-from-mars-mountain/index.html

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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Finds Mineral Match

Reddish rock powder from the first hole drilled into a Martian mountain by NASA's Curiosity rover has yielded the mission's first confirmation of a mineral mapped from orbit.

"This connects us with the mineral identifications from orbit, which can now help guide our investigations as we climb the slope and test hypotheses derived from the orbital mapping," said Curiosity Project Scientist John Grotzinger, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/msl/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-finds-mineral-match/index.html

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Clues to How Water Helped Shape Martian Landscape

Observations by NASA’s Curiosity Rover indicate Mars' Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years.

This interpretation of Curiosity’s finds in Gale Crater suggests ancient Mars maintained a climate that could have produced long-lasting lakes at many locations on the Red Planet.

pics inside.

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/december/nasa-s-curiosity-rover-finds-clues-to-how-water-helped-shape-martian-landscape/index.html

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Yea!

NASA Rover Finds Active, Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the robotic laboratory’s drill.

"This temporary increase in methane -- sharply up and then back down -- tells us there must be some relatively localized source," said Sushil Atreya of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Curiosity rover science team. "There are many possible sources, biological or non-biological, such as interaction of water and rock."

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/december/nasa-rover-finds-active-ancient-organic-chemistry-on-mars/index.html

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Very exciting news Lynn! Quite the discovery!

-Peter

-- Analysis underway of Curiosity's second drilled rock sample at Mount Sharp

-- Preliminary results suggest acidic ancient conditions

-- New drilling technique uses less-forceful hammering on fragile rock

The second bite of a Martian mountain taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover hints at long-ago effects of water that was more acidic than any evidenced in the rover's first taste of Mount Sharp, a layered rock record of ancient Martian environments.

The rover used a new, low-percussion-level drilling technique to collect sample powder last week from a rock target called "Mojave 2."

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/nasas-curiosity-analyzing-sample-of-martian-mountain/index.html#.VNVNSS72NOY

No people life on Mars.

Peter Mitchell, missed you back there, sorry.

Resources:

For more information about Curiosity, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/msl

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/

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Thanx for the update Lynn:)

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Very interesting! Thanks Lynn :)

Nitrogen is a chemical element with symbol N and atomic number 7.

NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars


A team using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard NASA's Curiosity rover has made the first detection of nitrogen on the surface of Mars from release during heating of Martian sediments. The nitrogen was detected in the form of nitric oxide, and could be released from the breakdown of nitrates during heating. Nitrates are a class of molecules that contain nitrogen in a form that can be used by living organisms. The discovery adds to the evidence that ancient Mars was habitable for life.

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/mars-nitrogen/index.html

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I think it won't be long before it is discovered and proved beyond doubt that life still exists on Mars, granted, very deep below the surface and most likely only in microbial form, but still life as is currently defined.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

Thanks for the latest news, Lynn.

I think we need a rover with a bigger shovel to go digging for fossils. ;~)

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Dead stowaways landed on Mars in August 2012. That's for certain. But due to their diminutive size -- they were microbes -- it was easy to miss them as NASA's Curiosity Mars rover touched down. Less certain, but much more consequential, is whether any Earth-based bacteria survived the trip with it. On Monday, scientists in Boston presented research strongly suggesting that they might have.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-news-bc-mars-comment25-20140525,0,4658785.story

The Earthlings that might already be living on Mars

Interesting.

it's not so bad to populate mars with OUR bacteria?

if we polute the "new worlds" with our bacteria, then we might have similar enviroments on other planets/moons/rocks...a places we might one day colonize!

and if don't spread them...than we, as a species, might be obliterated by one small rock...and no one ever will know that we existed! :/

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Mars Rover Sees Strange 'Veins' On Planet's Surface


The discovery of strange, mineral veins on Mars has planetary scientists buzzing. And no wonder: the find may shed new light on the Red Planet's watery past and could even help reveal whether Mars was once habitable.

NASA's Curiosity rover spotted the prominent veins in "Garden City." That's the name scientists use for a geologically rich site on towering Mount Sharp (Aeolis Mons), a mountain that rises almost 3.5 miles off the Martian surface.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/03/mars-veins-ice-cream-sandwiches_n_7000046.html

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