{"id":533,"date":"2012-07-23T02:19:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T06:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=533"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:25:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:25:50","slug":"curiosity-rover-to-discover-whether-mars-was-once-habitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/curiosity-rover-to-discover-whether-mars-was-once-habitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity Rover to discover whether Mars was once habitable"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>NASA\u2019s new mobile Mars Science Laboratory, also known as the Curiosity Rover, will be launched on August 5th<\/sup> to study the rocks, soil, and atmosphere on Mars\u2019 Gale Crater for signs of historical and current habitable environments.\u00a0 A habitable environment contains water, energy, and carbon to support life.\u00a0 Past missions have discovered the limited presence of water and energy on Mars, but none, so far, have found carbon in a form that can sustain life.<\/p>\n

Curiosity\u2019s purpose is to determine how to conduct a search for carbon, as well as find carbon.\u00a0 The former will assist planetary scientists in further research, since they are uncertain about how to probe rock strata for biosignatures, whether on Earth or on Mars.<\/p>\n

This month\u2019s issue of Scientific American<\/a><\/em> provides an overview of Curiosity\u2019s mission and a step-by-step description of its landing sequence.<\/p>\n

Image from Christopher Lotito<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA\u2019s new mobile Mars Science Laboratory, also known as the Curiosity Rover, will be launched on August 5th to study the rocks, soil, and atmosphere on Mars\u2019 Gale Crater for signs of historical and current habitable environments.\u00a0 A habitable environment … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72,71,73,65],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-curiosity-rover","tag-mars","tag-nasa","tag-planets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}