Next Mars Mission: Curiosity

Next Mars Mission

Gonzalo Miret

15/12/2010

Óscar Faus

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Introduction Components of the rover ”Curiosity” Flight Plan Rover life in Mars, functions Closing

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Introduction
A comparison of sizes for the Sojourner rover, the Mars Exploration Rovers, the Phoenix Lander and the Mars Science Laboratory.

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Mars ScienceLaboratory (MSL) / ”Curiosity” Launching: November 2011 Landing: August 2012 Total cost of the MSL project is about US$2.3 billion Main objective: Determine Mars' habitability using differentintruments supplied by 10 countries.

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Components of the rover
Cameras: MastCam | MAHLI | MARDI Spectrometers: APXS |ChemCam | CheMin | SAM Radiation Detectors: RAD | DAN EnvironmentalSensors: REMS Atmospheric Sensors: MEDLI

Components of the rover
REMS (Rover Environmental Monitoring Station)

-Supplied by Spain -Will monitor: ·Atmospheric Pressure ·Humidity ·Winds ·Temperature·Ultraviolet radiation from the sun

Components of the rover
MastCam Camera Capture the Martian terrain in color photos and highdefinition video.

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Alpha Particle X-RaySpectrometer (APXS)
-Supplied by Canadian Space Agency -Irradiate samples with alpha particles

-Measure the abundance of chemical elements in rocks and soils.

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RadiationAssessment Detector(RAD)
-Will characterize the broad spectrum of radiation -Will determine the viability and shielding needs for future human explorers

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MSL EntryDescent and Landing Instrumentation (MEDLI)
-Measures while it's introducing in martian atmosphere -Martian atmosphere, pressure and temperature measurements, record a video and save data. -Data will beevaluated by engineers when they design future Mars missions

Flight plan
Launching
-Will be launched using the Atlas V 541 rocket -It can transport up to 8672 kg -Will be in Mars in 9 months...