Will Curiosity Look for Life on Mars? Not Exactly…

“Curiosity is not a life detection mission. We’re not actually looking for life and we don’t have the ability to detect life if it was there. What we are looking for is the ingredients of life.” – John Grotzinger, MSL Project ScientistAnd with these words this latest video from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory begins, explaining what Curiosity’s goal will be once it arrives on Mars on August 5. There will be a lot of media coverage of the event and many news stories as the date approaches, and some of these will undoubtedly refer to Mars Science Laboratory as a “search for life on Mars” mission… but in reality the focus of MSL is a bit subtler than that (if no less exciting.)But hey, one can always dream…Video: NASA/JPL© Jason Major for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Post tags: Curiosity, JPL, life, Mars, MSL, NASA, Rover, video Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh