{"id":36519,"date":"2013-06-10T02:07:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T06:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=36519"},"modified":"2013-06-10T02:07:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T06:07:54","slug":"nasas-mars-rover-curiosity-gearing-up-for-journey-to-mount-sharp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity-gearing-up-for-journey-to-mount-sharp\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity Gearing Up For Journey To Mount Sharp"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity is now getting ready to begin its journey to Mount Sharp — the rover’s primary science destination on the Red Planet. The enormous Mount Sharp has been Curiosity’s eventual goal since the early planning stages of the Mars Science Laboratory mission.<\/p>\n

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Before beginning the 5-mile journey to Mount Sharp, Curiosity has just a couple of more things to finish up in the Glenelg area that it has been in since last fall. The journey to the base of Mount Sharp is expected to take at least a couple of months — though it may take longer if Curiosity spots something interesting along the way.<\/p>\n

As far as when exactly Curiosity will reach Mount Sharp, Mars Science Laboratory Project Manager Jim Erickson had this to say: “We don’t know when we’ll get to Mount Sharp. This truly is a mission of exploration, so just because our end goal is Mount Sharp doesn’t mean we’re not going to investigate interesting features along the way.”<\/p>\n