NASA Curiosity Rover
Does anyone know what experiments Curiosity, the NASA vehicle on Mars, will be carrying out over the next 12 months?
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There's more at: http://www.jpl.nasa...ience-laboratory.pdf
14 August 2012
Fundamentally Curiosity is looking for evidence that the planet could have, (or had in the past) supported life. In particular: A suite of instruments named Sample Analysis at Mars will analyze samples
of material collected and delivered by the rover’s arm. It includes a gas
chromatograph, a mass spectrometer, and a tunable laser spectrometer with
combined capabilities to identify a wide range of organic (carbon-containing)
compounds and determine the ratios of different isotopes of key elements.
Isotope ratios are clues to understanding the history of Mars’ atmosphere and
water.
14 August 2012
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