Learn how to drive Curiosity on Mars
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- Published: Sep 6, 2012
- Author: Jon Evans
- Channels: Laboratory Informatics / Sample Preparation / Ion Chromatography / Detectors / Electrophoresis / HPLC / Gas Chromatography / Proteomics & Genomics / UV/Vis Spectroscopy / X-ray Spectrometry / Infrared Spectroscopy / NMR Knowledge Base / Base Peak / Chemometrics & Informatics / Raman / MRI Spectroscopy / Proteomics / Atomic
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is offering an insight into what it's like to drive Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover, by hosting a live online question-and-answer session with rover driver Paolo Bellutta on Friday 7 September at 16:00BST. The session will be broadcast on the RSC YouTube channel and members of the public can sumbit questions for Bellutta via Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or email.
Curiosity is on Mars to to search for evidence that the planet may once have harbored life. In support of this mission, it is equipped with 180lb of analytical instruments, including a gas chromatograph, a mass spectrometer and a tunable laser spectrometer (see Big SAM hits Mars).
(Photo of Curiosity arm on Mars courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS).
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