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Message 1344477 - Posted: 9 Mar 2013, 10:06:16 UTC

Just to clarify. Each of the 2 Curiosity computers has a 200 MHz Power PC 250, 256 MB RAM, 200 KB EEPROM, 2 GB Solid State Disk. Much less than any Tablet here on the Earth. But Curiosity has no solar photovoltaic panels, and a nuclear plutonium based power supply. On the other hand, the Sun radiation at Mars is much less than here on the Earth or in a low Earth orbit.
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Message 1344841 - Posted: 10 Mar 2013, 7:28:27 UTC - in response to Message 1344491.  

WASHINGTON, March 7, 2013 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, March 12, to discuss the Curiosity rover's analysis of the first sample of rock powder ever collected on Mars.
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Message 1345933 - Posted: 12 Mar 2013, 22:27:44 UTC - in response to Message 1344841.  

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Message 1346057 - Posted: 13 Mar 2013, 8:01:54 UTC

I always thought that might have been the case. Mars used to be a lot warmer and there used to be water over there...
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Message 1346130 - Posted: 13 Mar 2013, 12:13:18 UTC

Probably man himself...
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Message 1348500 - Posted: 19 Mar 2013, 15:04:40 UTC

It is again in safe mode due to a software problem. It should get back active soon, before Mars lines with the Sun, making communications difficult.
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Message 1348567 - Posted: 19 Mar 2013, 20:06:47 UTC

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Message 1365977 - Posted: 9 May 2013, 7:18:52 UTC

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Message 1367392 - Posted: 13 May 2013, 6:08:54 UTC - in response to Message 1365977.  


NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target on Mars



This map shows the location of "Cumberland," the second rock-drilling target for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, in relation to the rover's first drilling target, "John Klein," within the southwestern lobe of a shallow depression called "Yellowknife Bay." Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona



PASADENA, Calif. -- The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to the drilling location in coming days.

"Cumberland", has some erosion.
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Message 1367758 - Posted: 14 May 2013, 6:46:25 UTC

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Message 1370471 - Posted: 22 May 2013, 6:21:24 UTC - in response to Message 1367758.  


NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Drills Second Rock Target


PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called "Cumberland."

Plans call for delivering portions of the sample in coming days to laboratory instruments inside the rover. This is only the second time that a sample has been collected from inside a rock on Mars. The first was Curiosity's drilling at a target called "John Klein" three months ago. Cumberland resembles John Klein and lies about nine feet (2.75 meters) farther west. Both are within a shallow depression called "Yellowknife Bay."


NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drilled into this rock target, "Cumberland," during the 279th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (May 19, 2013) and collected a powdered sample of material from the rock's interior. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS


There were two mars movies made. One of them had bugs come out to make oxygen.
(Sorry can't remember the movie. I want to see bugs, and the face on mars. This rock stuff is getting old.
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Message 1370492 - Posted: 22 May 2013, 7:03:49 UTC

Me too Lynn . Is the rover close to the face of Mars do you know ? Or to far away for it to go there .
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Message 1370567 - Posted: 22 May 2013, 11:59:01 UTC - in response to Message 1370471.  
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Is that my imagination or does there look to be damp patches in the dust and tailings that looks like fluid has flowed from upper right towards bottom left... The raised dark streaks/finger-like areas look very typical of when you add a few drops of water onto a dusty-sandy surface... The darkened edges to the tailings look like the tailings were/are damp.

Heat from the grinding action of the drill causing water-ice to melt?


Any more pictures to check out?!

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Message 1370568 - Posted: 22 May 2013, 12:03:50 UTC - in response to Message 1370567.  

Is that my imagination or does there look to be damp patches in the dust and tailings that looks like fluid has flowed from upper right towards bottom left... The raised dark streaks/finger-like areas look very typical of when you add a few drops of water onto a dusty-sandy surface... The darkened edges to the tailings look like the tailings were/are damp.

Heat from the grinding action of the drill causing water-ice to melt?


Any more pictures to check out?!

Keep searchin',
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Wishful thinking on your part looks to me . look at top right hand side you see the same type of thing
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Message 1370595 - Posted: 22 May 2013, 14:54:01 UTC
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I would think that Mars was once endowed with flowing water and quite possibly some type of plant life. We should be able to estimate when the water dried up and how much sedimentation from the wind and atmosphere has taken place.

What i am getting at is that we should be able to estimate how far down from the surface fossils might be found. The picture of the latest hole does look like some water may have just flowed. Could be drilling fluid.

For the cost of the Mission I think it would be fair to expect an answer incontrovertibly to, " was there ever plant, microbial or other forms of life on Mars."
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Message 1370973 - Posted: 23 May 2013, 16:45:24 UTC

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Message 1373218 - Posted: 30 May 2013, 1:37:56 UTC - in response to Message 1370973.  

Everyone! I was hoping for little green men, but not this...


'Mars rat' spied by NASA's Curiosity rover


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Message 1373223 - Posted: 30 May 2013, 1:46:50 UTC - in response to Message 1373218.  

Everyone! I was hoping for little green men, but not this...


'Mars rat' spied by NASA's Curiosity rover




people will belieave anything on T.V .....:]
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Message 1373294 - Posted: 30 May 2013, 5:48:31 UTC

I knew I smelled a rat!
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