{"id":4421,"date":"2011-12-19T07:22:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T07:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/?p=4421"},"modified":"2012-06-08T07:36:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T06:36:53","slug":"mars-rover-curiosity-begins-research-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/?p=4421","title":{"rendered":"Mars Rover Curiosity begins research in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: NASA<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nArtist's concept of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft during its cruise to Mars.
\nImage credits: NASA\/JPL-Caltech.<\/p>\n

NASA's car-sized Curiosity rover has begun monitoring space radiation during its 8-month trip from Earth to Mars. The research will aid in planning for future human missions to the Red Planet.<\/p>\n

Curiosity launched on Nov. 26 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., aboard the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). The rover carries an instrument called the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) that monitors high-energy atomic and subatomic particles from the sun, distant supernovas and other sources.<\/p>\n

These particles constitute radiation that could be harmful to any microbes or astronauts in space or on Mars. The rover also will monitor radiation on the surface of Mars after its August 2012 landing. (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\"Twitter\"<\/a>\n\"del.icio.us\"<\/a>\n\"Digg\"<\/a>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\n\"linked-in\"<\/a>\n\"Yahoo<\/a>\n\"StumbleUpon\"<\/a>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: NASA Artist’s concept of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft during its cruise to Mars. Image credits: NASA\/JPL-Caltech. NASA’s car-sized Curiosity rover has begun monitoring space radiation during its 8-month trip from Earth to Mars. The research will aid in planning for future human missions to the Red Planet. Curiosity launched on Nov. 26 from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars-rovers","category-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5769,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions\/5769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}