 | Mars Rover Curiosity's Investigations in Gale Crater. Monday, 3 December 9.00 am NASA's newest Mars rover, Curiosity, has been investigating past and modern environmental conditions in Mars' equatorial Gale Crater since August. This briefing will offer findings from examining the composition and textures of targets touched by the rover's robotic arm. Curiosity is the car-size rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. At the time of the AGU Fall Meeting, it will be four months into a two-year prime mission. Participants: Michael Meyer, Program Scientist for Mars Science Laboratory; NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA; John Grotzinger, Project Scientist for Mars Science Laboratory; California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA; Paul Mahaffy, Principal Investigator for Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM); NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA; Ralf Gellert, Principal Investigator for Curiosity's Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer; University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada; Ken Edgett, Principal Investigator for Curiosity's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI); MalinSpace Science Systems, San Diego, California, USA. Session: U13A Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory: PASADENA, Calif. -- The news conference about the NASA Mars rover Curiosity has been held at 9 am PST (12 pm EST) Monday, Dec. 3, in San Francisco at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Recorded Live. Soil analysis on Mars by the roving <b>...</b> | Views: 18  1 ratings |
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Mars Rover Curiosity's Investigations in Gale Crater Press Conference [HD]
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