The Curiosity ships testing on Mars

On August 22, more than two weeks after safely landed on Mars, Curiosity self-propelled probes successfully performed the first experimental migration journey on the Red Planet.

The American Aerospace Agency (NASA) said that after being inspected to ensure the ship's systems, especially the motion system, worked smoothly, the Curiousity had left its landing position and have the first "walk" .

According to scientists, this mobile science laboratory advanced 4.5 meters ahead, then turned right at a 90-degree right angle and then jerked back 2.5 meters. Thus, after this 16-minute journey, the Curiosity has moved a distance of about 6 meters from where it landed - named "Bradbury Landing" to honor the famous sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury. died.

During the migration, the Curiosity ship sent to Earth more images of the surface of Mars, including images of the first "footprints" of the robot itself.

According to NASA, the upcoming Curiousity ship will carry out more tests before officially starting its mission of finding and studying signs of life on the Red Planet for two years.

Curiosity's main goal is Sharp Mountain, which is located about 20km away from the location of this self-propelled ship. This peak consists of many layers of rock and soil formed over time.

By using scientific tools, Curiosity will examine organic molecules, which show whether the Red Planet has ever lived. However, scientists claim that Curiosity will take nearly a year to complete this route, depending on the time it takes to conduct the study during the trip.

Before exploring Sharp Mountain, Curiosity will make the journey back to a nearby site called "Glenelg" to conduct three types of geological analysis here. According to the scientists, the name "Glenelg" can be read back and forth, and is consistent with the idea that Curiosity's first journey by this self-propelled ship must go back to Sharp Mountain after exploring Glenelg.

Curiosity is expected to take more than two months to reach the landmark and stay there for about a month.

The $ 2.5 billion Curiosity Mars lab project is NASA's first space biological research mission since the Viking exploration ships in the 1970s.

The ship is about the same size as a car and weighs about 900kg, 5 times heavier than the Spirit and Oppoturnity probes, once on Mars in 2004. The mission of the billion-dollar lab is to find looking for signs of current life or supporting past life on Mars. In addition, it is also used to study the environment here, preparing for putting people on the planet in the coming years.