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While the New Year is celebrated on Earth, Mars continues scientific expedition of the most advanced research apparatus Curiosity. The Mars rover has been studying the Red Planet for half a year and for this time managed to get a lot of important information. Research the Curiosity device landed on Mars on August 6, 2012. Before He flew the red planet for nearly a year. Today The Curiosity is the most sophisticated rover that NASA has created. it six-meter apparatus, three meters long and tall in human height. Its mass is 900 kg. On Mars, it weighs three times less and moves at speeds up to 90 meters per hour. The pendant is arranged so that he can overcome obstacles up to 75 centimeters. The main task of Curiosity is to answer the question, which has long worried scientists and ordinary people, namely, has life ever existed on Mars. The device is equipped with the latest technology, it has a complete set of tools for drilling a surface and collecting its samples. Also aboard there are two scientific laboratories for the analysis of materials. Curiosity has been operating on Mars for less than six months, but already sent a lot of important information to Earth. NASA Specialists found in the photographs that there were signs that the planet was water. In particular, the photo clearly shows the rocky the breed. Scientists believe that it was water that gave the stones such a shape. The service life of the device is one Martian year. These are two earthly. For this time the rover must go a few tens of kilometers and analyze the soil and air on the planet.
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