1213+Curiosity+Data

Moritz:

“This collage shows the variety of soils found at landing sites on Mars. The elemental composition of the typical, reddish soils were investigated by NASA's Viking, Pathfinder and Mars Exploration Rover missions, and now with the Curiosity rover, using X-ray spectroscopy. The investigations found similar soil at all landing sites. In addition, the soil was usually unchanged over the traverse across the Martian terrain made by both Mars Exploration Rovers. The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's landing region in Gusev Crater is seen in both pictures at top; Viking's landing site is shown at lower left; and a close-up of Curiosity's Gale Crater soil target called "Portage" is at lower right. In Gusev Crater, several white subsurface deposits were excavated with Spirit’s wheels and found to be either silica-rich or hydrated ferric sulfates.”

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16571.html

These pictures show the different soil kinds on Mars which the rover collected samples of.

“This map shows where NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has driven since landing at a site subsequently named "Bradbury Landing," and traveling to an overlook position near beside "Point Lake," in drives totaling 1,703 feet (519 meters). The rover landed on Aug. 5 Pacific Time (Aug. 6, Universal Time). It was at the easternmost waypoint on this map on Nov. 30, 2012. It worked on scoops of soil for a few weeks at the drift of windblown sand called "Rocknest." The place called "Glenelg" is where three types of terrain meet. The depression called "Yellowknife Bay" is a potential location for selecting the first target rock for Curiosity's hammering drill. All of these sites are within Gale Crater and north of the mountain called Mount Sharp in the middle of the crater. After using its drill in the Glenelg area, the rover's main science destination will be on the lower reaches of Mount Sharp. “

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16577.html

This map show where the rover has driven since its landing. It drove 1,703 feet in total. On its way it picked up a lot of ground samples and took a lot of pictures. Yellowknife Bay might be the first place where the rover might pick up its first samples of rocks.





NASA VIdeo: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2012/aug/23/nasa-curiosity-rover-test-drive-video

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130312.html

Tanay: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20121102.html Scientist are now wondering that Mars could have been habitable at one point. And that the atmosphere of Mars changed a lot. The atmosphere of mars is 100 times thinner than Earth's atmosphere.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/news/mars20121127.html There has been a storm since Nov. 10 it has weakened since it came. NASA is getting a lot of good data out of this storm.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130312.html Scientists have just found sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon these are some of the things are essential for life in the powder Curiosity found all of these things in rock on mars. (Moritz and Tanay)

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16729.html

Curiosity did its first drilling on Mars. Portions of it are have delivered to the Chemistry and Mineralogy instrument and the Sample Analysis these are some of the instruments used to test the things that they have found.



Curtis: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16469.html Scientist Discovers Scoop Marks in the Sand at Rocknest. It is 4 centimeter about 1.5 inches. Scientist discovers it is covered by fine dust and has some dirt

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16570.html Scientist has discover Windblown Sand From the Rocknest Drift It said some Windblown sand has glassy, reddish sphere and ellipsoid.