NASA Mars Rover successfully primarsy.

MarsA rover NASA new generation successfully primarso. The launch of the delivery spacecraft with the rover took place from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011 and almost a year later, today, on August 6, a successful landing took place. Universal rejoicing in the NASA Mission Control Center could be watched live. A truly exciting moment.







The moment of landing in the online mode (on ustream.tv) looked more than 200k people.



During the journey from Earth to Mars, the device had to overcome 567 million kilometers.

The total cost of the project "Mars Science Laboratory" (Mars Science Laboratory), which started in 2004 amounted to $ 2.5 billion.

The mass of the rover is 899 kilograms and in size it is comparable to a small car.

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RIA.RU pretty well depicted the whole process of landing







The main task of the rover is to find out if there are any places on the planet that are potentially suitable for living organisms and whether Mars was ever habitable.



After just a few minutes after a successful landing, the mission control center already had the first photo of the Mars surface as part of the mission of the rover, taken with a low-resolution black and white camera:







The signal from the rover to the MCC is 14 minutes.

C:\Users\klim>ping curiosity

   curiosity [x.x.x.x]  32  :
  x.x.x.x:  =32 =1680431
  x.x.x.x:  =32 =1680123
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