President Obama to call Curiosity team

President Obama to call Curiosity team

Monday, August 13, 2012
An artist concept featuring NASA's Curiosity rover
[PHOTO: NASA/JPL-Caltech] 
Washington: President Barack Obama will congratulate members of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover team at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., at 11 a.m. EDT (8 a.m. PDT) this morning.

Obama's call comes a week after Curiosity landed on the Red Planet. Curiosity carries the most advanced science payload ever used on Mars' surface.

During the next 2 years, it will use its 10 instruments to investigate whether conditions have been favorable for microbial life and for preserving clues in the rocks about possible past life.

Curiosity was designed, developed and assembled at JPL, which also is where the rover's mission control is located. 
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