This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at Un robot explorará Marte con tecnología del CSIC
A robot will explore Mars with technology of the CSIC
22/11/2011
22 November 2011
<*p>The Nasa will launch *Curiosity, a robot that will explore Mars, with Spanish technology of the Upper Council of Scientific Investigations (CSIC ). The mission Mars Science Laboratory will launch next Saturday, 26 November, from Kennedy Space Center situated in Cape Reedbed, Florida. Researchers of the CSIC in the Centre/Center of Astrobiology (mixed centre/center of the CSIC and the *Inta) participate in the mission of the Nasa through the instrument Rems (Rover Environmental Monitoring *Station), that will take meteorological data of the surface of Mars.<*p>The project will launch the robot on board of a rocket Atlas V with the aim that it pose on the surface of the red planet. The vehicle *Curiosity, the third generation of vehicles all terrain that the Nasa sends to Mars, is designed to explore the surface of the planet during at least a year marciano (686 terrestrial days). The intention of the mission is to realise/realize on the terrain analysis of physical type, chemist and meteorological. With this pretends , between other things, identify trace biological and interpret geological and climatic processes.<*p>The researcher of the CSIC Felipe Gómez, member of the Spanish team of the project, signals the importance of the mission: “Curiosity houses the last available technology to know in depth the red planet. Our station meterológica will be able to contribute a lot of important data to be able to determine the possible existence of liquid water in Mars and the biological potential of the zone”.
