The Exploratorium, located in San Francisco, is a world-renowned, playful learning laboratory of provocative exhibits and experiences that ignite curiosity and transform the way people learn.
On Mars, as on Earth, sometimes things can take on an unusual appearance. A case in point is a shiny-looking rock seen in a recent image from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover. Join us live, online tomorrow, February 20, 2013, at 4:00p.m. PST to learn about Curiosity’s latest findings.
Eagerly anticipating the Curiosity Mars Rover’s first drilling maneuvers. This will also be the first time any robot has drilled into rock to COLLECT SAMPLES FROM MARS! (via NASA - Curiosity Maneuver Prepares for Drilling)
So beautiful.
And a good excuse to listen to Grizzly Bear perform “Deep Blue Sea.”
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Great #datavis of all of Earth’s missions to Mars!
Earth Missions to Mars infographic
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Panorama of Curiosity’s Belly Check-from Sol 34 on Mars
photo credit: NASA/JPL
Mast Cam images from Curiosity of Mars-these are from the raw image collection, day 17.
photo credit: NASA/JPL
Sol 21 on Mars, new images from Curiosity. beautiful landscape shot!
in this image from the Mast Cam, of the base of Mt. Sharp, you can see the landscape of Mars, and the inset picture-in-picture shows a black dot, which is a rock that is similar in size to the Curiosity rover.
photo credit: NASA/JPL
today, the ChemCam on Curioisity fires it’s laser for the first time at a rock!
from JPL:
“Today, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars, using the beam from a science instrument to interrogate a fist-size rock called “Coronation.”
The mission’s Chemistry and Camera instrument, or ChemCam, hit the fist-sized rock with 30 pulses of its laser during a 10-second period. Each pulse delivers more than a million watts of power for about five one-billionths of a second.
The energy from the laser excites atoms in the rock into an ionized, glowing plasma. ChemCam catches the light from that spark with a telescope and analyzes it with three spectrometers for information about what elements are in the target.”
photo credit: NASA/JPL
Curiosity stretched it’s arm yesterday! here’s a couple of pix of the arm.
photo credit: NASA/JPL
today, our live Mars webcast is called “Follow the Water”. join Exploratorium scientists as we talk about water on Mars!
we go live at 1pm PDT, view here:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/mars
photo credit: NASA/JPL
Curiosity Drives on Mars for the First Time
Curiosity takes a look at its tracks!
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Curiosity Nav Cam photo from today, Sol 12! This is from the raw image collection.
photo credit: NASA/JPL
