The Curiosity Rover has celebrated 1000 Mars days (sols) on the red planet.
In that time it’s travelled 10.6 km, which is (oh dear) only about a tenth of the way towards the summit of Mt Sharp.
What has it achieved science-wise?
What happens at Mt Sharp?
SCIENCE said:
What happens at Mt Sharp?
Ask any adventurer. There’s something special about reaching the top of a mountain, albeit for no purpose at all.
SCIENCE said:
What happens at Mt Sharp?
See a bunch of layers, find out about Martian geological history etc.
mollwollfumble said:
The Curiosity Rover has celebrated 1000 Mars days (sols) on the red planet.In that time it’s travelled 10.6 km, which is (oh dear) only about a tenth of the way towards the summit of Mt Sharp.
What has it achieved science-wise?
Looks like they’ve got some sort of chimney with a spark arrestor at the back left there.
What are the burning?
What have they got to hide?
Why is a Martian day called a sol?
Shouldn’t it be a Martian Sol?
Or Mol, for short?
Peak Warming Man said:
mollwollfumble said:
Looks like they’ve got some sort of chimney with a spark arrestor at the back left there.
What are the burning?
What have they got to hide?
Hi PWM, do you think it’s the part of Curiosity in which they burn plutonium? Good try, but it isn’t, it’s the UHF antenna, it’s how the rover communicates with Earth. The bit where they burn plutonium is next door.
I’m curious about the name Dingo Gap.
Divine Angel said:
I’m curious about the name Dingo Gap.
Most of the names of places discovered by the Curiosity Rover are of Australian origin. The overall site Gale Crater is named after an Australian, the Monash Uni geology lecturer Marion Anderson played a large part in site selection. You can easily see references to Bathurst, Cairns Darwin, and dozens of other Australian names on the map above.
mollwollfumble is now taking bets on how many years it will be before Native Title Legislation has to cope with Aboriginal Land Rights claims on Mars. For example, using “Windjana Gorge is a highly spiritual place to Bunuba Aboriginal people” to make ownership claims on land at Windjana on Mars. Anyone want to make a bet?