| Story Views | |
| Now: | |
| Last Hour: | |
| Last 24 Hours: | |
| Total: | |
Curiosity Touches Mars at Yellowknife Bay and Drives to Snake River for Drilling
Image Caption: Photo mosaic shows NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover in action reaching out to investigate rocks at a location called Yellowknife Bay on Sol 132, Dec 19, 2012 in search of first drilling target. Curiosity’s navigation camera captured the scene surrounding the rover with the arm deployed and science instruments on tool turret collecting imaging and spectroscopic data. The mosaic is colorized. See the full 360 degree panoramic and black & white versions below. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Ken Kremer/Marco Di Lorenzo
Following the Christmas season break for panoramic imaging of her surroundings, NASA’s Curiosity robot has resumed roving around the shallow depression she reached before the holidays called ‘Yellowknife Bay’.
The top priority is to locate a target rock to drill into – and that momentous event could take place in the next week or so. The drill is the last of Curiosity’s suite of ten science instruments to be fully checked out and commissioned for use.
The drilling scene will look a lot like our photo mosaics, above and below, showing the robotic arm deployed for action. The drill is located on the tool turret at the end of the 7 foot (2.1 meter) long mechanical marvel. (…)
Read the rest of Curiosity Touches Mars at Yellowknife Bay and Drives to Snake River for Drilling (831 words)
© Ken Kremer for Universe Today, 2013. | Permalink | No comment |
Post tags: Curiosity, Curiosity Rover, Gale crater, Mars, Mars Rovers, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA, Search for Life
Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh
2013-01-05 22:33:04
Source:
