The significance of Curiosity's mission is to inspect Mars for valuable resources and key things for life. Also to see if humans will ever be able to live on the Planet. This trip is significant because they have prepared for it for a long period of time and it will show NASA if Mars is needed to re-visit because if they spent a lot of money sending Astronauts up to Mars and they found nothing it would be a massive waste of time and money.
During the two years Curiosity will spend its time searching for the chemical building blocks needed to support primitive organisms, such as carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur and oxygen. To do so it will drill into Martian rocks and examine some of the planet's famous red soil. From this information I can infer that NASA has faith that they will find something on Mars. I think this because they invested a lot of time, effort and money onto the Curiosity so they must have a feeling that there are some valuable resources on Mars.
If Curiosity were to find valuable resources on Mars I think that they would first observe the pictures that Curiosity had taken. Then they would decide if they were to re-visit the planet. If they were to re-visit Mars they would bring the resources back to earth where they would thoroughly analyze them. If they found everything they wanted to find I think that they would test to see if humans could survive and potentially live on Mars. Also I assume they would use some of the resources to substitute for other resources that are running out.
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