By the name, you could probably already tell that we are talking about a robot in space. This is no ordinary robot. It is a special robot that can withstand heat that no human can, and can take a video for all humans to see, but that isn’t why he is so special. This robot has been to the Moon, and more importantly, Mars.The opportunity rover has been on the surface of Mars for more than eight years, but sadly the spirit rover only made it to six years. Opportunity and the Spirit rover are NASA’s twin Mars Rovers. NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars January 4, 2004, and was launched June 10, 2003. The amount of time that NASA planned Spirit was 90 days, but as you can tell they went a little over 90 days(2100 days over to be exact!). The
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To perform calibration and validation of surface observations made by a Mars orbiter and the instruments. This will help determine the accuracy and effectiveness of various instruments that survey
Martian geology from orbit. Also, search for iron containing minerals, identify and quantify relative amounts of specific mineral types that contain water or were formed in water, such as iron-bearing carbonates. To characterize the mineralogy and textures of rocks and soils and determine the processes that created them. And, search for geological clues to the conditions that existed when liquid water was present. Finally, to assess whether those environments were conducive to life. As you can see, there are many different reasons why NASA sent
Opportunity and Spirit to Mars. The main reason was to look for water, which they succeeded in doing, thanks to Curiosity, another NASA rover. There is water on
Mars, but it is frozen under the north and south polar ice caps. Mars has a lot of flood and river channels making it seem that a long time ago water flowed on Mars during a time when Mars was a warm and wet planet with a thicker atmosphere, kind of like Earth. That is what the spirit rover
To perform calibration and validation of surface observations made by a Mars orbiter and the instruments. This will help determine the accuracy and effectiveness of various instruments that survey
Martian geology from orbit. Also, search for iron containing minerals, identify and quantify relative amounts of specific mineral types that contain water or were formed in water, such as iron-bearing carbonates. To characterize the mineralogy and textures of rocks and soils and determine the processes that created them. And, search for geological clues to the conditions that existed when liquid water was present. Finally, to assess whether those environments were conducive to life. As you can see, there are many different reasons why NASA sent
Opportunity and Spirit to Mars. The main reason was to look for water, which they succeeded in doing, thanks to Curiosity, another NASA rover. There is water on
Mars, but it is frozen under the north and south polar ice caps. Mars has a lot of flood and river channels making it seem that a long time ago water flowed on Mars during a time when Mars was a warm and wet planet with a thicker atmosphere, kind of like Earth. That is what the spirit rover