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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Curiosity Landing

Today, the new Curiosity rover will land in a crater on the surface of Mars. It will touch-down at 10:31 p.m PDT. As of now, the rover is in good condition and preparing for landing. Earlier today, members of the Curiosity team made a few adjustments to the rover's landing sequence. At 2:25 PDT this morning, Curiosity was about 261,000 miles away and traveling at about 8,000 mph. You can "watch" the landing tonight on NASA TV. I have made a page on this blog so you can stream it to your computer.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Mojave Desert + Mars Rover = Awesome

This week, NASA practiced with a model of a new Mars rover over at the Mojave Desert in California. The rover is called Curiosity and will be landing on August 5, 2012. The model is basically the same as Curiosity but weighs about the same as Curiosity will on Mars. This will help train the future operators of the rover. The rover was built at The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. 

Saturday, May 5, 2012

I'm Back Baby!

I'm sorry I haven't posted in a long time. I'm going to try to update the blog more. Tonight, the Moon will be as big as it's going to get all year. This event is called a supermoon. This happens when the Moon's orbit comes slightly closer to Earth than usual while the Moon is full. Even thought the Moon isn't that much closer, it will look a whole lot bigger.