Epi 60: Space news - Celebrating 10 years of Curiosity Rover on Planet Mars
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English - September 05, 2022 02:30 - 11 minutes - 7.86 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEducation for Kids Kids & Family kids podcast stories current affairs news for kids humour family parenting mothers children science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
When NASA sent the Curiosity Rover to Mars in 2012, they expected the rover to last all of one year on the Red Planet. Much to their consternation and the rest of the world's delight, the rover shows no signs of slowing down. Who would have thought we owe much to dust for this? Like our brooms at home, the dust clouds on Mars help keep the solar panels on the rover clean, and keep them running.
The rover was sent to answer an important question 'Could Mars have supported life at any time'? To find out the answer to this question, listen to the full episode with 10-year old Krishnika from DAV Model school, Durgapur. The 17 cameras on the rover, its fancy spectrometer and digger - are features we explore in this episode. If you have found the answer to the riddle at the end, email it to us at [email protected].
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