NASA Now Minute: Scientific Method: Using Robots for Inquiry

Paulo Younse is a robotics engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory located in Pasadena, Calif. Younse is an expert on NASA’s newest rover, Curiosity, and will be talking about how each mission to Mars is determined by the information gained from previous missions. He will explain how scientists and robots work together using the scientific method of research. NASA Now Minutes are excerpts from a weekly current events program available for classroom use at the NASA Explorer Schools Virtual Campus located at: