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  2. Curiosity - Wikipedia

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    Social curiosity is defined as a drive to understand one's environment as it relates to sociality with others. Such curiosity plays a role in one's ability to successfully navigate social interactions by perceiving and processing one's own behavior and the behavior of others. It also plays a role in helping one adapt to varying social ...

  3. Timeline of Mars Science Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    The drive across may take up to two months, after which Curiosity will stay at Glenelg for a month. [ 59 ] On the way, Curiosity studied a pyramidal rock dubbed " Jake Matijevic " after a mathematician-turned-rover-engineer who played a critical role in the design of the six-wheeled rover, but died just days after Curiosity landed in August.

  4. Intellectual curiosity - Wikipedia

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    In 1738, the Scottish philosopher David Hume differentiated intellectual curiosity from a more primitive form of curiosity: . The same theory, that accounts for the love of truth in mathematics and algebra, may be extended to morals, politics, natural philosophy, and other studies, where we consider not the other abstract relations of ideas, but their real connexions and existence.

  5. Curiosity (rover) - Wikipedia

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    Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover exploring Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. [2] Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral (CCAFS) on November 26, 2011, at 15:02:00 UTC and landed on Aeolis Palus inside Gale crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, 05:17:57 UTC.

  6. Wonder (emotion) - Wikipedia

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    It has historically been seen as an important aspect of human nature, specifically being linked with curiosity and the drive behind intellectual exploration. [1] Wonder is also often compared to the emotion of awe [2] but awe implies fear or respect rather than joy. Science fiction can produce a sense of wonder.

  7. Blue skies research - Wikipedia

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    Blue skies research (also called blue sky science) is scientific research in domains where "real-world" applications are not immediately apparent.It has been defined as "research without a clear goal" [1] and "curiosity-driven science".

  8. Necessity is the mother of invention - Wikipedia

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    In an address to the Mathematical Association of England on the importance of education in 1917, Alfred North Whitehead, a philosopher-mathematician, argued that "the basis of invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity," and in contrast to the old proverb "Necessity is the mother of ...

  9. Rocker-bogie - Wikipedia

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    A rocker bogie In motion - incorrectly shows chassis staying level; the chassis actually maintains the average of the two rockers Rocker bogie on Curiosity. The rocker-bogie system is the suspension arrangement developed in 1988 for use in NASA's Mars rover Sojourner, [1] [2] [3] and which has since become NASA's favored design for rovers. [4]