The Impact Of Nasa's Curiosity Rover On Mars
Sending Curiosity, a space rover, to mars is much more difficult than sending people into outer space for 2 major reasons: the amount of collaboration/effort and planning. NASA said that this mission “introduced the world to one of the most daring, inventive feats of engineering the world had ever witnessed: the pinpoint landing of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars.” In addition, “no mission this ambitious had ever been attempted in the past” and “the landing presented problems that could not be compared directly to anything done before.” The amount of collaboration and effort put into this mission is unbelievable. According to “Seven Minutes of Terror”, The seven minutes explored in that story and experienced by the world in early August 2012,
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Skeptics may argue that there was probably more effort put into the rocket because of its cost. Well, according to “seven minutes of terror”, the curiosity rover itself costs “2 billion dollars”. But according to NASA, an average rocket/space shuttle launch costs about 450 million dollars. This proves that Curiosity is much more expensive and, therefore, had harder work put into it. The second reason the Curiosity mission was much more difficult than sending people into space is because of the planning. The planning basically includes the 2 parts of the mission; the launch and landing. The launch was very risky because of the consequences faced if it fails as stated in the …show more content…
This is absolutely not true because there was not even a landing involved in sending people into space. In addition, according to Amanda Schupak, “The total mission lasted just 108 minutes, and the trip once around the Earth at 17,500 mph (most of the way) took less than an hour and a half.” The numbers speak for itself, If a trip to space lasted for such a short time then obviously there was very little planning. Plus, there were no challenges faced in taking off mentioned in the “From Earth to Outer Space” article.
In conclusion, sending Curiosity, an expensive rover, to mars took years of hard work from amazing engineers. Nothing can compare to the difficulties faced by the NASA team during the “Seven Minutes of Terror.” Sending Curiosity is much more arduous than sending people into outer
Skeptics may argue that there was probably more effort put into the rocket because of its cost. Well, according to “seven minutes of terror”, the curiosity rover itself costs “2 billion dollars”. But according to NASA, an average rocket/space shuttle launch costs about 450 million dollars. This proves that Curiosity is much more expensive and, therefore, had harder work put into it. The second reason the Curiosity mission was much more difficult than sending people into space is because of the planning. The planning basically includes the 2 parts of the mission; the launch and landing. The launch was very risky because of the consequences faced if it fails as stated in the …show more content…
This is absolutely not true because there was not even a landing involved in sending people into space. In addition, according to Amanda Schupak, “The total mission lasted just 108 minutes, and the trip once around the Earth at 17,500 mph (most of the way) took less than an hour and a half.” The numbers speak for itself, If a trip to space lasted for such a short time then obviously there was very little planning. Plus, there were no challenges faced in taking off mentioned in the “From Earth to Outer Space” article.
In conclusion, sending Curiosity, an expensive rover, to mars took years of hard work from amazing engineers. Nothing can compare to the difficulties faced by the NASA team during the “Seven Minutes of Terror.” Sending Curiosity is much more arduous than sending people into outer