MARS ROVER By: Peyton Priest & Robert Hollman The Mars Rover is an AMV (Automated Motor Vehicle). NASA uses landers and rovers. Rovers have several advantages over the landers. They can examine more territory, they have a lot more interesting features, and they can be in any kind of weather. The mars rover launched towards mars on June 10th, 2003. NASA wanted to learn more about the history of water on Mars. Two of them were launched. They landed on January 3rd, and 24th, 2004. This mission

two similar twin robotic rovers, which were Spirit and Opportunity toward Mars on 10 June and 7 July 2003 (NASA 2012). Spirit and Opportunity landed in Gusev Crater on 4 January 2004 and in Meridiani Planum on 25 January 2004 respectively (NASA 2012). Opportunity is still operating and roving after 10 years on the Martian surface while final communication of Spirit to the Earth took place on 22 March 2010, which is around six years into its mission (NASA 2012). The rovers were thought to last 20 times

Rovers discovered plenty of salts on Mars. Bright soil contains salts, including iron-bearing sulfates and light-colored soil mainly composed of silica are possibly originated from water. Deposits of closely pure silica in Gusev Crater may have developed when volcanic steam or hot water leached through the ground. These deposits found around hydrothermal vents are important for past habitability’s studies of Mars as Earth’s hydrothermal environments support microbial ecosystems. Both rovers found

interest in the exploration of Mars. More missions have been attempted to Mars than to any other place in solar system except the Moon, and half of the attempts failed. However, the early exploration attempts taught us many lessons that made subsequent missions more successful. Since 1995, Mars exploration has undergone a renaissance. NASA has successfully launched four orbiters and four landed missions. These missions provided data and images that changed our view of planet Mars. One of the more

Earth, not to dwell on Mars. Five planets in the night sky are visible with the naked eye—Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury. Named after the Roman gods, these celestial bodies have been observed since the earliest of time. Associating the reddish color with the bloodshed of war, the Romans named the fourth planet from the sun after their god of war—Mars. The search for the life on this planet has cost billions of dollars, and scientists have focused so much on Mars because it is the only

fascinating to us than our closest neighbor, Mars. This fascination is reasonable, because Mars seems to be one of the very few places in our solar system that holds the capabilities to support current or ancient life forms. With the launch of The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s [NASA] Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity on July 7, 2003 mankind had taken a major step forward for the exploration of the surface of Mars. Not only have the two rovers greatly surpassed their 90-day missions

every day, company such as NASA now how a huge budget, over 20million (Table 2 Full yearly NASA spending) and are researching new ways to get to space. With advances such as the mars rover which is currently collecting information on mars, and the first man on the moon in a few decades we might be able to send a man to mars. Currently NASA are trying to develop a system of growing food in space. The biggest problems is gravity, of course you can’t use soil as it can move and might float out of the

remote. With no purpose for a self-sustaining robot to patrol the planet, only a small amount of money for engineers and inventors to improve these robots circulates the economy. When dealing with other planets, self-sustaining rovers come in really handy. The latest Mars Rover, Curiosity, currently carries out its mission to sample Martian soil. The rover’s mast stands at just over seven feet tall, with the body at about half the height. The equipment on Curiosity equals the same as an entire geological

Mars. It’s where the most technologically advanced rover ever built is right now. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a specifically designed mission which allows scientist to study back on Earth to study Mars for any condition where past or present life may be found on the desolate planet. To conduct this mission on the planet itself, they use Curiosity, a high tech rover. In this paper, you will learn about the specifications of the rover, pre-launch preparations, the flight to Mars, the landing

I have always had an assorted cluster of intellectual interests, but science was a large percentage of those. As experiences and a great deal of knowledge accumulated through the fascinating thirteen years of my life, the pieces that were once an unsolved puzzle began to come together. I realized that I wanted not to be a teacher, a police officer, a CEO of a business industry, but something just as influential as that: a NASA scientist. Space and my love of building seemed to come together when