CNN/Jethro Mullen, 8/28/12, "Human voice makes giant leap in space thanks to Curiosity."
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| Mars, unlike Pacifica has no weeds to pull |
The voice of NASA's chief has boldly gone where no voice has gone before -- to another planet and back. Words uttered by Charles
Bolden, the administrator of NASA, were radioed to the Curiosity Rover
on the surface of Mars, which in turn sent them back to NASA's Deep
Space Network on Earth,
NASA said in a statement Monday.
The successful
transmission means Bolden's space-faring comments are the first instance
of a recorded human voice traveling from Earth to another planet and
back again, according to NASA. In the recording,
Bolden congratulated NASA employees and other agencies involved in the
Curiosity mission, noting that "landing a rover on Mars is not easy." "
Others have tried," he said. "Only America has succeeded."
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| Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator |
The announcement by NASA
of the voice transmission, the latest in a series of advances by
Curiosity since it landed on Mars earlier this month, comes just days
after the death of
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. "
We hope these words will
be an inspiration to someone alive today who will become the first to
stand upon the surface of Mars," Dave Lavery, NASA Curiosity program
executive, said in the agency's statement. "And like the great Neil
Armstrong, they will speak aloud of that next giant leap in human
exploration."
"...NASA on Monday released new photos of the Martian landscape
taken by Curiosity. The images show the knobbly terrain on the side of
Mount Sharp, an area that Curiosity is eventually intended to explore.
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Reference - NASA, "Mars Science Laboratory:
Curiosity: Could Mars have once harbored life?" Note: photograph from NASA.
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Associated Press/Science/Alicia Chang, "Can Curiosity Mars mission inspire like Apollo?"
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