Happy Birthday, Curiosity!
On August 5, 2012 (PDT), NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on the Red Planet. Aboard was the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument, or SAM, the most sophisticated chemistry lab ever sent to another planet. Now, on the first anniversary of the landing, engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center are using SAM to "sing" Happy Birthday to Curiosity.
NASA's Curiosity rover celebrates its Martian birthday on August 5 (PDT), the day that it landed on Mars. In honor of this special ocassion, engineers at Goddard Space Flight Center are using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument to "sing" Happy Birthday to Curiosity.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Video editor
- Dan Gallagher (USRA)
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Interviewee
- Florence Tan (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Dan Gallagher (USRA)
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Project support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Videographers
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- John Caldwell (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- Chris Smith (HTSI)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, August 5, 2013.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:51 PM EDT.
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SAM Sings Happy Birthday
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Monday, August 5, 2013 at 4:00AM
Produced by - Dan Jacob (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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