While Curiosity isn't yet ready to start driving around, "Here we've already got an exploration hole drilled for us, " Grotzinger said.
Curiosity won't be searching for life directly.
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As the name implies, it overlays photos with a map underneath, giving people a far more visual look at what they were seeing at a given point on Earth (or Mars, assuming Curiosity hasn't reached its data limit this month).
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The new software essentially replaces the flight operations programs, which Curiosity now doesn't need, NASA said.
That didn't happen, of course, and Curiosity is safe.
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The idea is to raise people's curiosity enough while ensuring they won't be annoyed at being distracted from the tennis.
There aren't specific molecules that scientists are looking for with Curiosity.
And, of course, there are plenty of non-biological processes that will produce organics, so it wouldn't be an "A equals B" situation even if Curiosity were to make the identification.
Curiosity remained in contact with ground controllers, but it can't zap rocks, snap pictures or roam around until the problem is fixed.
At MIT he was working with Frank T. (Tom) Leighton, a professor of mathematics who harbored a curiosity about how the Internet worked.
But most who attended did so out of curiosity, rather than any sense of allegiance - and they didn't always buy into their former leader's analysis of events.
If you don't live in Japan and aren't working for The Man, we've got some photos and video below which should hopefully satisfy your curiosity.
" Ashwin Vasavada, a Curiosity project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told reporters that controllers "couldn't be happier with the success of the mission so far.
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