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Discover Mars with Curiosity: The Rover's Weekends of Exploration

Curiosity has just spent its first weekend exploring the breathtaking dunes, canyons, and volcanoes of Mars! With a busy schedule packed with picture-taking, soil sampling, and laser zapping, this Mars rover is paving the path for future discoveries about life on the Red Planet. Follow its adventures on Twitter and engage your little space enthusiasts! Did you know its lasers can vaporize materials from 23 feet away? Learn more about Curiosity, its unique findings, and the ongoing Mars exploration missions in this exciting overview.

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Discover Mars with Curiosity: The Rover's Weekends of Exploration

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  1. SpaceRovers. Curiosity just spent it’s first weekend rolling around the dunes, canyons, volcanoes of Mars. (And what did you do this weekend?) It’s taking pictures and videos, scraping up soil samples and laz er zapping rocks. Keep up with it’s busy schedule on Twitter. And your little space fans will definitely want to — after all, scientists believe that if life could exist anywhere in space, Mars would be the place. Who knows— maybe the Rover is making blueprints for martin ‘hoods as we speak? Here are 20 fun fast facts about the Mars Rover. 1. The lasers fixed on top of the rovers “head” can shoot at a distance of up to 23 feet and vaporize anything in their path! Vaporize! The vaporized substance can be analyzed by scientists to see if the landscape of Mars is toxic.

  2. MarsOrbiter. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is capturing unique views of Mars with the most powerful telescopic camera ever to another planet. Its five other scientific instruments are collecting data about the Red Planet.Mars Exploration RoversSpirit Launch: Jun. 10, 2003; Mars Landing: Jan. 3, 2004Opportunity Launch: Jul. 7, 2003; Mars Landing: Jan. 24, 2004Two powerful Mars rovers are on the red planet. They have far greater mobility than the 1997 Mars Pathfinder rover. Each rover carries a sophisticated set of instruments to search for evidence of liquid water that may have been present in the planet's past. The rovers are identical to each other, but are exploring different regions of Mars.NASA is participating in Mars Express, a mission planned by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency. The mission is exploring the atmosphere and surface of Mars from polar orbit.

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