Curiosity rover.
lets talk about ''curiosity'' .So what is ''curiosity''?
One year back today on 5 Aug, NASA's Curiosity rover survived its nerve racking and extraordinary Red Planet landing, making celebration around the nation.
The 1-ton robot has accomplished an incredible arrangement in its a year on Mars, finding an old streambed and assembling enough confirmation for mission researchers to announce that the planet could have upheld microbial life billions of years ago.
What's more, more huge finds could be in the offing, as Curiosity is currently trekking toward its definitive science goal: the foothills of a colossal and puzzling mountain that jelly, in its numerous layers, a past filled with Mars' changing atmospheric conditions.
So, when it will stop working?
to what extent the rover will trundle along the Martian surface is presently open for debate about however NASA authorities gauge an any longer time of 10, 12 or even 15 years. Prior to its dispatch, the radioisotope thermoelectric generator, which makes power from the heat created by the radioactive decay of component plutonium-238, gave somewhere in the range of 110 watts of electrical energy to work the rover's instruments, mechanical arm, wheels, computer, and radio. Furthermore, warm liquids heated by the generator's abundance heat are pumped all through the rover to keep the hardware and different frameworks at temperatures agreeable for ideal activity.
However in spite of the additional power that plutonium-238 can give, Curiosity can at present surrender to the damage of its wheel's drive engines and along these lines its capacity to move around on the Martian surface leaving researchers to trust that the meanderer(rover) could keep going for a shorter time of somewhere close to five to six years.
Curiosity has effectively far outlived its guarantee; the meanderer's $2.5 billion mission was initially planned to last only two Earth years.
Be that as it may, there's no motivation to figure Curiosity won't have the capacity to control through three more years on the Red Planet; the wanderer is fit as a fiddle general, Vasavada said. (The mission group has possessed the capacity to moderate an at first stressing rate of wheel harm, principally by picking courses with the milder ground, he included.)
In any case, one noteworthy medical issue keeps on harassing Curiosity: The wanderer has been not able to utilize its bore since December 2016. This is a major blow, on the grounds that the bore — which sits toward the finish of Curiosity's 7-foot-long (2.1 m) mechanical arm — enables the robot to get to the unblemished insides of rocks and, hence, portray antiquated conditions. (Without this ability, the meanderer is, for the most part, constrained to breaking down surface material, for example, sand, which was formed and modified in the current past.)
The issue lies in the penetrate bolster system, which advances the boring apparatus and in reverse. Until about a month prior, Curiosity engineers were centered principally around diagnosing the issue and settling it in a way that would reestablish typical bore tasks, Vasavada said. In any case, the group is currently examining an elective boring technique — utilizing the arm itself, not the nourish engine, to move the penetrate.
"That requires a ton of work — to make sense of if that is sheltered, and to make sense of how to do it, and how to order it," Vasavada said. "However, it's promising, and that might be the place we focus our endeavors going ahead."
In spite of the fact that he and other mission colleagues are essentially worried about the future — settling the bore and proceeding with Curiosity's scale Mount Sharp, for instance — the occasions of Aug. 5, 2012, still remain as a cherished memory to Vasavada.
One year back today on 5 Aug, NASA's Curiosity rover survived its nerve racking and extraordinary Red Planet landing, making celebration around the nation.
The 1-ton robot has accomplished an incredible arrangement in its a year on Mars, finding an old streambed and assembling enough confirmation for mission researchers to announce that the planet could have upheld microbial life billions of years ago.
What's more, more huge finds could be in the offing, as Curiosity is currently trekking toward its definitive science goal: the foothills of a colossal and puzzling mountain that jelly, in its numerous layers, a past filled with Mars' changing atmospheric conditions.
So, when it will stop working?
to what extent the rover will trundle along the Martian surface is presently open for debate about however NASA authorities gauge an any longer time of 10, 12 or even 15 years. Prior to its dispatch, the radioisotope thermoelectric generator, which makes power from the heat created by the radioactive decay of component plutonium-238, gave somewhere in the range of 110 watts of electrical energy to work the rover's instruments, mechanical arm, wheels, computer, and radio. Furthermore, warm liquids heated by the generator's abundance heat are pumped all through the rover to keep the hardware and different frameworks at temperatures agreeable for ideal activity.
However in spite of the additional power that plutonium-238 can give, Curiosity can at present surrender to the damage of its wheel's drive engines and along these lines its capacity to move around on the Martian surface leaving researchers to trust that the meanderer(rover) could keep going for a shorter time of somewhere close to five to six years.
Curiosity has effectively far outlived its guarantee; the meanderer's $2.5 billion mission was initially planned to last only two Earth years.
Be that as it may, there's no motivation to figure Curiosity won't have the capacity to control through three more years on the Red Planet; the wanderer is fit as a fiddle general, Vasavada said. (The mission group has possessed the capacity to moderate an at first stressing rate of wheel harm, principally by picking courses with the milder ground, he included.)
In any case, one noteworthy medical issue keeps on harassing Curiosity: The wanderer has been not able to utilize its bore since December 2016. This is a major blow, on the grounds that the bore — which sits toward the finish of Curiosity's 7-foot-long (2.1 m) mechanical arm — enables the robot to get to the unblemished insides of rocks and, hence, portray antiquated conditions. (Without this ability, the meanderer is, for the most part, constrained to breaking down surface material, for example, sand, which was formed and modified in the current past.)
The issue lies in the penetrate bolster system, which advances the boring apparatus and in reverse. Until about a month prior, Curiosity engineers were centered principally around diagnosing the issue and settling it in a way that would reestablish typical bore tasks, Vasavada said. In any case, the group is currently examining an elective boring technique — utilizing the arm itself, not the nourish engine, to move the penetrate.
"That requires a ton of work — to make sense of if that is sheltered, and to make sense of how to do it, and how to order it," Vasavada said. "However, it's promising, and that might be the place we focus our endeavors going ahead."
In spite of the fact that he and other mission colleagues are essentially worried about the future — settling the bore and proceeding with Curiosity's scale Mount Sharp, for instance — the occasions of Aug. 5, 2012, still remain as a cherished memory to Vasavada.
