NASA Now Minute: Geology: Curiosity -- Main Science Goals

Dr. Ashwin Vasavada, deputy project scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory, discusses the main science goals for Curiosity, including the investigation of the presence of water and evidence of life on the Red Planet. NASA Now Minutes are excerpts from a weekly current events program available for classroom use at the NASA Explorer Schools Virtual Campus located at: › http://explorerschools.nasa.gov.

Living on Mars Time

NASA Curiosity flight director David Oh updates us on the rover and his family’s experience on Mars time.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech › Curiosity's mission site

Curiosity's Robotic Arm

This engineering drawing shows the location of the arm on NASA's Curiosity rover, in addition to the arm's turret, which holds two instruments and three tools. The arm places and holds turret-mounted tools on rock and soil targets. It also manipulates the sample-processing mechanisms on the 66-pound (30-kilogram) turret.

The arm has five degrees of freedom of movement provided by rotary actuators known as the shoulder azimuth joint, shoulder elevation joint, elbow joint, wrist joint and turret joint.

This Week @ NASA, September 7, 2012

Armstrong Tributes, Anatomy of JFK Speech and so much more.

Cloudsat Dissects Tropical Storm Ileana

NASA's CloudSat satellite's Cloud Profiling Radar captured a sideways look across Tropical Storm Ileana on Aug. 27 at 20:40 UTC. The colors indicate intensity of reflected radar energy. The blue areas along the top of the clouds indicate cloud ice, while the wavy blue lines on the bottom indicate intense rainfall. Credit: NASA/JPL/Colo. State Univ./NRL-Monterey

Palestra da Lua Cheia

Prezados amigos, sábado último tivemos a tradicional palestra da Lua Cheia, proferida, desta feita, por Simone Tenório, que foi válida também como Trabalho de Ingresso ao CEAAL(TIC). A palestra foi intitulada: Jogos Astronômicos em Realidade Aumentada. A duração do evento foi cerca de 40 minutos e, ao final de tudo, Simone foi aceita como mais uma sócia do nosso CEAAL. Tivemos ainda observações telescópicas da Lua e de alguns aglomerados para nossos visitantes. Uma boa semana a todos.

Criança observa a nossa Lua

Kizzy inicia os trabalhos apresentando Simone Tenório

Público presente no início da palestra

Simone defende seu trabalho perante a banca examinadora composta por Romualdo, Seu Fidélis e Edmílson

Setembro 2012

What's Up for September 2012

Join astronomers around the world at lunar observing events on September 22nd for the annual International Observe the Moon Night.