Curiosity Landing Area by MagikUnicorn
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The 2.5 billion dollar Mar$ rover
The biggest rover ever made (8ft high - 15 ft long)
N.A.S.A. Curiosity Mission: Canada is Going Back to Mars
Montreal, Quebec, Saturday 10:02 AM ET, NASA will take a bold new step in the exploration of Planet Mars with the launch of a new rover, Curiosity. Curiosity is the centerpiece of the Mars Science Laboratory mission and will seek to determine if the Red Planet has ever had conditions supportive of life. Scheduled to launch November 26, 2011, Curiosity will carry a Canadian-made science instrument that will enable the rover to determine the chemical composition of the rocks and soil on Mars.
Canadian instrument
Roughly the size of a soup can, the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS)'s sensor will be able to gather data day and night. APXS, which sits on the end of the rover's robotic arm, will move in close to a sample and bombard it with alpha particles and X-rays to study its composition, including trace elements. APXS is provided by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), with Dr. Ralf Gellert of the University of Guelph as the Principal Investigator.
NASA will hold a briefing about the mission on Nov 10 at 1 p.m., on N A S A - T V just before the launch
Thanks
Magik
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Véhicule robotisé à 2,5 milliards de $
N.A.S.A. Mission Curiosity : Le Canada retourne sur Mars
Montréal (Québec), Samedi 10:02 AM ET, la NASA poussera son programme d'exploration de la planète Mars toujours plus loin, en lançant un nouveau rover, Curiosity. Ce dernier est l’élément principal de la mission du Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) qui a pour mission de déterminer si les conditions ont déjà été propices à la vie sur la planète rouge. Curiosity devrait s'envoler vers Mars le 26 novembre 2011, avec à son bord un instrument canadien qui permettra d'établir la composition chimique des roches et des sols martiens.
L'instrument canadien
Grâce à son capteur de la taille d'une boîte de conserve, la sonde du spectromètre à particules alpha et rayons X (APXS) sera capable de recueillir des données, le jour comme la nuit. Du bout du bras robotique du rover, l'APXS s'approchera des échantillons à analyser pour les bombarder de particules alpha et de rayons X, afin d'étudier les propriétés de l'énergie émise en retour par l'échantillon. APXS est une contribution de l’Agence spatiale canadienne (ASC) en collaboration avec le chercheur principal, Dr. Ralf Gellert de l’Université de Guelph.
Une séance d’information sur la mission sera diffusée sur N A S A - T V just avant le lancement.
Merci
Magik

Comments (62)
Bravo! I hope it is as successful as Spirit and Opportunity have been. I love hearing about them. I am looking forward to hearing what discoveries Curiosity makes. What a great name, for it is curiosity that sends mankind out into the unknown, more than anything else. I hope we always are reaching out and exploring. Excellent image and information! I like the way you inset the image on to a terrain very like where Curiosity will be.
Ils ont choisi un mode risqué d'atterrissage, je crains le pire. Les Européens avaient échoué avec ce même mode.