what are some intersting facts about the mars rover?
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it's small, light, and relatively cheap.
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How would a tourist from mars relate his experiences on earth when he gets back home
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In the 60s bij de Apollo mission control Of NASA. In the 60s they also had a kinda Mars-Pathfinder.
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LIFE ON MARS.\n\nIn 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli produced the first "modern" map of Mars, on which he showed a system of what he called canali. Although canali in Italian means "channel", without the implication of being an artificial feature, the word was commonly translated into English as "canal".\n\n\nIn 1910, Percival Lowell captured the imagination of the public with his book Mars As the Abode of Life. Based on his extensive visual observations (and as we know today, an active imagination) Lowell painted a compelling portrait of a dying planet, whose inhabitants had constructed a vast irrigation system to distribute water from the polar regions to the population centers nearer the equator.\n\nDespite its appeal to the public, the astronomical community never gave serious credence to the details of Lowell's theory. The failure of many observers to confirm the existence of the canals eventually led scientists to suspect that their colleagues had been fooled into seeing the canals, by the difficulty in resolving fine detail from Earth and their own desire to believe. (This map, constructed from Viking orbiter images in the same format as Schiaparelli's -- south is up -- shows no sign of the canals, though a few features may have been interpreted as such.)\n\n\nBut the Lowell-inspired idea of an Earthlike Mars proved more durable. At the dawn of the space age, Mars was considered to have an atmosphere about a tenth the density of Earth's, water ice polar caps that waxed and waned with the seasons, and an annual "wave of darkening" that was often interpreted as growing plant life.\n\nIn the 1960s, observations from Earth and flyby spacecraft signalled the beginning of the end for Lowell's Mars. The Mariner 4, 6, and 7 missions returned images of a moonlike, heavily-cratered surface. The atmosphere was found to be almost pure carbon dioxide (CO2), only a hundredth the density of Earth's, and the polar caps proved to be almost entirely frozen CO2. The first global views of Mars, returned by the Mariner 9 orbiter in 1972, revealed that the planet was far more complex than the earlier flyby missions had shown, with huge volcanoes, an enormous canyon system, and evidence of running water at some point in the past. But the wave of darkening was shown to be the result of seasonal redistribution of windblown dust on the surface, the atmosphere's composition and density were confirmed, and most of the evidence for an Earthlike Mars was swept away.\n\nBut despite all these blows, the possibility of organisms on the surface could not yet be ruled out. For this reason, in 1976 the Viking landers carried a sophisticated instrument to look for possible life forms on the martian surface.\n\n\nTHE VIKING BIOLOGY EXPERIMENT.\n\nThe Viking biology experiment weighed 15.5 kg (34 lbs) and consisted of three subsystems: the Pyrolytic Release experiment (PR), the Labeled Release experiment (LR), and the Gas Exchange experiment (GEX).\n\nIn addition, independent of the biology experiments, Viking carried a Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) that could measure the composition and abundance of organic compounds in the martian soil. (It should be noted that organic is a chemical term simply meaning "carbon-containing", and does not require the presence of life, although all life on Earth does contain carbon.)\n\n\nLABELED RELEASE.\n\nThe LR experiment moistened a 0.5-cc sample of soil with 1 cc of a nutrient consisting of distilled water and organic compounds. The organic compounds had been labeled with radioactive carbon-14. After moistening, the sample would be allowed to incubate for at least 10 days, and any microorganisms would hopefully consume the nutrient and give off gases containing the carbon-14, which would then be detected. (Terrestrial organisms would give off CO2, carbon monoxide (CO), or methane (CH4).)\n\n\nGAS EXCHANGE.\n\nThe GEX experiment partially su
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Multiple NASA web sites have the info that you seek.\nGood luck with your project and let me know how it turns out?
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the land rover is a british manufacturer scense 1948 they built cars under landrover names landrover seriesI,SII,SIII "u should have seen them on movies abt africa u know" tell the mid 80s then names "landrover 110,landrover 90" refering to the wheelbase lenth 110" or 90" , starting from the 90s they called this vehicle the landrover defender "still 110 and 90" and tell now that name is used for that vehicle, its the more nonefrills offroad vehicle in land rover range as its variants are millitary vehicles,\nthe range rover is another vehicle built by land rover its the first luxury offroad vehicle "the first SUV concept , though SUV is so called on many jeeps and truck based vehicles in USA" and its the first SUV with permanet FWD and a pioneer in using coil sprung suspenisons , and one of the best offroad SUVs ever built "maybe the best offroad SUV" in the field of offroad capabilities as very clever design  , the car production started in 1973 tell now , many fans prefere old 70s and early 80s models as better offroaders, \nland rover company has other production lines the landrover discovery and the freelander. \nland rover was a joint of "british lyland" company sold then to BMW then to ford tell now, some quality issues r related to land rover crisis times starting from the late 90s any issues behind that , is a user thing ;) , land rover is the most popular safari and cruising vehicle and the more that recover others in sand dunes. and was prefered by many mideast countries and very famous of the camel trophy offroad cruise "one of the world's toughest rallys"\nand still 75% of all Land Rovers produced since 1955 are still on the road.
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Mars is not hot. It's pretty cold. The average surface temperature is -8°C. In best conditions, it takes about a month to get there. The trip would be on a spaceship and you'd be PARTYING!
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You are reffering to the Mars Exploration Rovers.  There is also a probe on it's way to Mars to see if it had any long standing bodies of water.
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The first Mars Rover made the trip in eight months.\nIt's about fifty million miles away.\nI don't know how cold it is.
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This site will give you that information and more.\n\nhttp://www.livescience.com/technology/050407_earth_drill.html
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0.38 that of earth's\n\nhttp://www.amnh.org/rose/mars/pl2.html
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hi there, you asked a nice question. \na simple-straight answer in layman terms to this would be that Mars Rover is remote-controlled from NASA.\n\nfor a more complex answer i would cite a website -\nThe rovers "talk" to Mars Odyssey and Mars Global Surveyor, which are constantly orbiting the red planet. In the 16 minutes it takes each orbiter to go from horizon to horizon, there is an opportunity for the rovers and orbiters to "converse" for about ten minutes.\nThe orbiters, with their more capable X-band communications systems, can transmit data back to Earth at a faster rate. This high performance is critical, as time on the large antennas here on Earth that were built to receive the data (the Deep Space Network) is limited given all of the spacecraft that rely on them.\n\nNow these telecommunication can be used to transfer data as well as give control commands to the Mars Rover, and this can be done by anyone who has access to NASA system.
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10? Good lord. People who ask for a huge number of obscure facts are so greedy. \n\nYou know you do have search engines on the internet? Ever hear of them?\n\nI will give you a couple.\n\nThe Olympus Mons volcano on Mars is the tallest in the solar system (as tall as everest) and is as big as the entire Hawaiin island chain.\n\nThere are signs of water erosion on the surface. \n\nThe large rock "face" that was previously observed is just weathered rocks when seen from another angle.
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diameter of mars: 6,794 km
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1)olympus maru (on mars).\n2)more than 185000 miles long.\n3)"deimos"(of mars).\n4)90 to 99%.\n5)15 million degree celsius.\n  \n i m not sure about 4).\n   :)
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According to current accepted beliefs, there is no people in Mars, although there has been fossils of single celled organism.\n\nWe should stick to this, until we found any further information about living things in Mars.
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SOME FACTS FOR U- \n\nAmazing Distances!   (from the sun)\n\nEarth - 93 Million miles\n\nPluto - 2.7 Billion miles\n\nAlpha Centauri - 25 Trillion miles\n\nCenter of Milky Way - 190 Quadrillion miles\n\nNearest observed Galaxies - 450 Quadrillion miles  WOW!\n\n \n\nQuick Earth Facts...\n\nMass  -  6 sextillion, 588 quintillion short tons (5.9763 x 1027 grams)\n\nSurface Area  -  196,950,711 square miles\n\nEscape velocity  -  6.96 miles per second\n\nOrbital velocity  -  66,672 miles per hour\n\n \n\nQuick Animal Facts...\n\nA shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes\n\nTigers have striped skin, not just striped fur\n\nAn ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain\n\nA goldfish has a memory span of three seconds\n\nA dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours\n\nA cat has 32 muscles in each ear\n\nA seal can swim steadily for eight months\n\nCrickets chirp more quickly in warm weather\n\nOne termite queen can produce half a billion children\n\nThe toucan's bill is larger than its body\n\nA saguare cactus can weigh 10 tons\n\nSome turtles live for more than 200 years\n\nThe raccoon washes its food\n\nThe strongest muscle in the body is the tongue\n\nThe ant can lift 50 times its own weight, and can pull 30 times its own weight\n\nPolar bears are left handed\n\nThe flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field\n\nButterflies taste with their feet\n\nElephants are the only animals that can't jump\n\nStarfishes haven't got brains\n\nMosquitoes have teeth. \n\nEven if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several\nweeks. \n\nPenguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.\n\n \n\nAmazing...did you know that.....\n\nCows aren't really vegetarians?  \n\nSince grass isn't a good source of protein, the downstream part of the cow's stomach after breaking down the grass, \n\ndigests its microorganisms.\n\nRed blood cells do not divide?\n\nThey are created in your bone marrow at the rate of 140,000 per minute and are later destroyed in the liver.\n\nDragonflies have over 20,000 lenses in each eye?\n\nits true...but who's counting?\n\nEl nino events occurs regularly - every two to seven years?\n\nYes, they do; the name is derived for the spanish for "christ child" because the weather starts to change around Christmas.The event begins with the warming of the waters off the western coast of South America and is followed by unusual weather throughout the western hemisphere.\n\nThe red part of the strawberry isn't the fruit?\n\nIt's actually a modified part of the stem.  The fruit is the little yellow thing sticking to the side.\n\nThe Blue Whale is the largest animal that ever lived?\n\nSpecimans have been reported as long as 120 feet, and many weigh close to 120 tons!\n\nThere are only\n\n-2353 days 9 hours and 26 minutes left \nUntil December 31th 1999 (Year 2000)