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the curiosity rover set out to answer a

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big question

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could mars have supported ancient life

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now we know the answer but there's still

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so much more to

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learn help nasa's curiosity rover safely

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explore the surface of mars engineers

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here on earth use a nearly identical

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sibling named maggie

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this full-scale engineering model helps

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the team practice operations in the mars

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yard at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory

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i'm raquel villanueva here with

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curiosity deputy project scientist

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abigail freeman her team is celebrating

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their 10th year on the red planet

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where has the rover travel to in the

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past decade

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well we've spent the last basically 10

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years martian mountain climbing

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curiosity landed at the base of a big

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mountain named mount sharp that is made

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of layers of rocks so we're climbing the

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mountain to give us a snapshot of

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martian history we've driven about 17

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and a half miles and more impressively

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we've climbed over 2000 feet in

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elevation up the mountain we're all the

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way up in these hills now it's pretty

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spectacular with all that climbing how

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is curiosity doing pretty good actually

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you know all of our science instruments

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are working just about as good as they

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did when we landed we have nearly our

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full capabilities

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the arm and the drill and the rover

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they're a little bit arthritic so we

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have to be a little bit gentle when we

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use them and our wheels are a little bit

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beat up the wheels on maggie look great

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but we have some some test wheels that

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we've really destroyed the wheels on the

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rover are somewhere between these two

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you know we just drilled our 35th sample

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the other week so still doing amazing

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science and how do you decide where the

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rover is going to go do you work with

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other nasa missions you know the data

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from the mars orbiters have been really

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helpful the spectrometers that's the

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kind of instrument on on odyssey and

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mars reconnaissance orbiter have told us

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where the interesting minerals are and

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where the best places to go to look at

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changing environments are and then in

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particular the cameras on the mars

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reconnaissance orbiter they're so good

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and they're so helpful at allowing us to

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find the safest way that we can climb

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this mountain

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what would you say is the biggest

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discovery your team has made you know

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curiosity was sent to mars in order to

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answer a really big question did mars

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have all of the ingredients that we know

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life needed and 10 years later not only

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have we given that answer a definitive

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but we've also seen that those

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ingredients were around for tens of

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millions of years

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and what's next for curiosity we can see

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from orbit that we're getting to a place

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in the mountain that likely records a

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pretty dramatic change in the sorts of

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environments that were around you know

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the lakes that once filled gale started

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to dry out and we're getting to that

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period in time so we're really

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interested in answering how long did

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these habitable environments persist as

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mars and gale crater went through these

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pretty big climate changes i just can't

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wait to see what's next we've seen hints

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that the rocks are going to be very

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different very soon and so i'm really

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curious what we're going to find

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well that is an exciting new chapter for

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you and congratulations on 10 years

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thanks abigail thanks so much

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to get the latest updates follow at nasa

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jpl and at nasa mars on social media or

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take a deeper dive on the mission