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hi this is torsten zorn i am the

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tactical downlink lead on the mars

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curiosity rover

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earlier this week we had a major success

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when we deployed the arm for the first

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time on mars

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this is critical to ensuring that we can

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get sample into our instruments and use

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the arm for its scientific purposes

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the chemcam unit or chemistry and camera

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instrument fired the laser for the first

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time on mars

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using the beam from the science

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instrument to interrogate a fist-sized

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rock called coronation

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we promise no martians were injured in

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this experiment

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before we could drive curiosity we

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wanted to wiggle our toes a bit and test

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the steering actuators this is the first

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we hit a major milestone on mars we

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completed our first drive of the

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curiosity rover we drove approximately

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three meters forward and performed two

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60-degree rotations in the clockwise

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direction with imaging in between

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we then drove backwards just under three

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meters in order to test the wheels in

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the opposite direction this put us in a

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great configuration to make observations

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of the scours left by the descent stage

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engines

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we've got a very interesting science

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experiment coming up here on mars we are

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turning on the sample analysis at mars

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instrument for the first time to do an

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atmospheric experiment this is where we

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let an atmosphere into the instrument

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and perform various science experiments

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to determine the composition of the

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atmosphere this is the first time that

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this is happening

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within days we will start our journey to

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our first chosen destination on mars

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glenelg we hope to obtain our first

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drilled rock sample on mars at this

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location

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the team named the landing site this

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week after the famous science fiction

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author ray bradbury on his birthday

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august 22nd and he would have been 92.