August 2021
Born to juggle in space
...Perhaps so much so, that it will not be fully understood for some time. At the least, I hope it will stimulate curiosity about the possibilities of movement on Earth and in space. I considered filming on a parabolic flight, but parabolic flights aren...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
...the mission will be important. The RAD instrument on the Curiosity rover provided radiation data on its flight to Mars, ...Apollo or the wings of the Space Shuttle. In 2012, the Curiosity rover’s ‘Seven Minutes of Terror’ to the Martian surface, ...
May 2026
Mars exploration – the nuclear option
...of the rocket equation. The tyranny of the rocket equation. The Curiosity rover on Mars has a mass of just over 1,980 pounds... payload attached, weighed 117 million pounds (53,000 kg). So Curiosity required 1,169,835 pounds of additional mass to get it...
27 December 2019
Mars 2020 aeroshell’s impressive pedigree
... descent, however, will look less like InSight’s than that of the Curiosity rover in 2012. While the Mars 2020 heat shield appears nearly identical to Curiosity’s, and matches its 4.5 metre girth for a planetary mission record...
29 July 2020
Puzzling new gas signatures found on Mars
...,” says Trokhimovskiy. The observations analysed by the two different teams were mostly performed at different times to NASA’s Curiosity rover, but there is no direct disagreement between missions as the TGO data cannot account for large plumes...
23 March 2026
The International Atlas of Mars Exploration Vol.3
... text 25 pages after first mention of MAHLI, MARDI or MEDLI, you’re in trouble! Although the volume concentrates on the Curiosity, Insight and Perseverance landers, it also includes orbiter missions. Note, however, that this is not a spacecraft book...
