space mission

Planet Mission

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NASA's Curiosity Rover has been on Mars since __. And in that time it has made some important discoveries about the planet and taken some amazing photos.

• 2013

• 2023

• 2012

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But how do you get something the size of a small car to land safely on __?

• Mercury

• Marcs

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NASA's scientists thought of an idea that had never been tried before. Many people didn't believe it would work. On _ 6th, 2012, Curiosity approached the planet following a 9-month journey through the solar system

• September

• August

• December

Multiple Choice

 The team behind the project was understandably nervous.

The first step was to enter the atmosphere of _

• Jupiter

• Mars

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Next, a special parachute was needed to slow the _ down to a safe speed.

• Spaceship

• spacecraft

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Then came the most difficult part of the mission-the landing. The spacecraft broke away from the _ and

used its own rockets to slow down even more.

• paramount

• parachute

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 It moved slowly closer to the ground. Then, for the first time ever, a

sky crane was used to lower the rover gently down to the ground. _!

• Success

• failure

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Curiosity landed just as planned. And its work to discover more about this amazing _, could begin.

• planet

• Space