Mars: NASA Mars Science Lab Takes Off

by Gina Smith
1 min read

Of course, they should not be going to Mars. Please. They should be going to the moon, Europa, where water perhaps resides. But there goes democracy and bureaucracy. Suffer the fools if you can.

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Of course, they should not be going to Mars. They should be going to the moon, Europa, where water perhaps resides. But there goes democracy and bureaucracy. Suffer the fools : (

Source: CNET


KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.–A towering Atlas 5 rocket flashed to life and vaulted into space Saturday, putting on a spectacular weekend sky show as it boosted NASA’s $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory rover on an eight-and-a-half-month, 352-million-mile voyage to the Red Planet.

Equipped with a nuclear power pack, a robot arm, and a suite of sophisticated instruments, the mobile laboratory, dubbed Curiosity in a student naming contest, is expected to spend at least two years looking for organic compounds and signs of past or present habitability in the layered terrain at the heart of a 100-mile-wide crater.

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