In yet another landmark achievement, Nasa’s Curiosity rover has sent back the first recorded human voice that travelled from earth to another planet and back.
In spoken words radioed to the rover on Mars and back to Nasa’s Deep Space Network on earth, the space agency Administrator Charles Bolden, according to a press statement, noted the difficulty of landing a rover on Mars, congratulated Nasa employees and the agency’s commercial and government partners on the successful landing of Curiosity earlier in August, and said curiosity is what drives humans to explore. “The knowledge we hope to gain from our observation and analysis of Gale Crater will tell us much about the possibility of life on Mars as well as the past and future possibilities for our own planet. Curiosity will bring benefits to earth and inspire a new generation of scientists and explorers, as it prepares the way for a human mission in the not too distant future,” Bolden said in the recorded message, released by Nasa on Monday. “Since the beginning of time, humankind’s curiosity has led us to constantly seek new life, new possibilities beyond the horizon,” he said.