NASA has Launched their new Mars Project
Nov 28, 11
After Spirit and Opportunity this time NASA has launched another Mars rover on 26th November. They have given its name Curiosity. This Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) i.e the Curiosity is even bigger than the previous two.
The rover with an Atlas V rocket departed from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:02 a.m. EST on 26th. It is expected that Curiosity, NASA’s 3rd expedition to Mars, will touch down on August 6, 2012 as it will take nine months to reach Mars.
This rover was designed and assembled at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California Institute of Technology. And the launch of Curiosity has been managed by the Kennedy Space Center.
The scientists are more energize about this project as this is NASA’s biggest ever rover that weighing near to 2000 pounds and is 10 feet long making it double the length & five times heavier than the earlier Mars rover.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said, “We are very excited about sending the world’s most advanced scientific laboratory to Mars. MSL will tell us critical things we need to know about Mars, and while it advances science, we’ll be working on the capabilities for a human mission to the Red Planet and to other destinations where we’ve never been.”
Ayan Ghosh
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