11 Oct 2012 - Mars Rock Touched by NASA Curiosity has Surprises [Archive]

NASA

12th October 2012, 05:30

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/696038main_wiens-1pia16192annotated_full_160x1201.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=41084)11 Oct 2012 - Mars Rock Touched by NASA Curiosity has Surprises
The first Martian rock NASA's Curiosity rover has reached out to touch presents a more varied composition than expected from previous missions.

More... (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=41084)

ViralSpiral

12th October 2012, 08:17

You gotta be kidding me :P

Usually do ;)

From their article:-

The rover team used two instruments on Curiosity to study the chemical makeup of the football-size rock called "Jake Matijevic" (matt-EE-oh-vick) The results support some surprising recent measurements and provide an example of why identifying rocks' composition is such a major emphasis of the mission.

When looking up (matt-EE-oh-vick) , I found this:-

"The Mars rovers that he worked on are very complex systems, and no one person can know the entirety of each one of these systems," said John Callas, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's project manager for the Mars Exploration Rover. "He was the most knowledgeable person on the entirety of the system, so if you had a question, he was the guy to go to."

Mr. Matijevic, 64, died Monday, Aug. 20, of a traumatic lung event at his home in Los Angeles' Los Feliz area, said his brother Paul. He battled asthma and other upper respiratory ailments his entire life, his brother said.

"When we talked, he would never give you the sense that he had that much level of responsibility for the success of what was going on on these Mars missions," his brother said. "We would talk about the projects for sure, but he was always talking about the science of them and the cool things that were going on, and not about his particular role."

Source (http://touch.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-72815751/)

50 shades of Curiosity........