Mars Science Laboratory - Curiosity

The end of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft mission :
Launching: October 15th 1997
End of the mission: Friday September 15th 2017 at 11:55 UTC

The Voyager golden record contains sounds and greetings from humanity. Listen to them here: https://soundcloud.com/…/sets/golden-record-greetings-to-the

Science Gains From Diverse Landing Area of Curiosity :

This image shows where NASA's Curiosity rover aimed two different instruments to study a rock known as "Jake Matijevic."
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130926.html #.UkUoKIb7qGM

September 12, 2013

Voyager 1 has entered interstellar space. The NASA spacecraft, which rose from Earth on a September morning 36 years ago, has traveled farther than anyone, or anything, in history. Now Voyager 1 is in the space between the stars.

For more information, visit : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-277

For a sound file of the oscillations detected by Voyager in interstellar space, animations and other information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/voyager and http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/interstellarvoyager/ .

For an image of the radio signal from Voyager 1 on Feb. 21 by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Long Baseline Array, which links telescopes from Hawaii to St. Croix, visit: http://www.nrao.edu/ .

Computer simulation : http://eyes.nasa.gov/

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Curiosity, un an sur Mars : l'heure du bilan

Quel bilan tirer de la mission de Curiosity, après un an passé sur Mars ? Certes, plusieurs premières ont été réalisées. Ainsi du forage puis de l’analyse de roches par ChemCam et Sam, et de la mesure de la tolérance aux radiations. Or, d’autres questions restent en suspens : le rover cherche encore des molécules organiques attestant d’une vie passée, et le mont Sharp n’a pas livré son histoire. Échec ? Plutôt une question de temps selon les scientifiques.

Parcours de Curiosity depuis son atterrissage, le 6 août 2012, au 1er août 2013 !