Curiosity Mars Hand Lens Imager photo produced on Sol 2665, February 4, 2020.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS “ChemCam will collect more data from ‘Ramasaig,’ a dark vein near the rover, and ‘St. Monanas,’ another piece of rock with interesting textures,” Fraeman adds. “The rover...
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2966 duties. The rover has hit the road again, heading towards the contact with a rubbly-looking geologic unit on the way up Mount Sharp, reports Melissa Rice, a planetary geologist at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. ...
Curiosity, U.S. robotic vehicle, designed to explore the surface of Mars, which determined that Mars was once capable of supporting life. The rover was launched by an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on November 26, 2011, and landed in Gale c
Launched from space launch complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V-541 heavy lift rocket, the NASA Curiosity rover is now safely motoring across Mars within a very large crater named Gale that is 96 miles in diameter. The Curiosity rover touched ...
Wave ripples—the undulating lines in sandy shores that form when the wind pushes shallow water back and forth—are a common sight on Earth’s lakes and beaches. Now,NASA’s Curiosity roverhas identified two sets of ancient wave ripples on Mars, suggesting ...
Curiosity has faced myriad challenges during its time on Mars, from computer glitches to drill malfunctions, orientation trouble and extensive damage to its wheels, but the robust rover keeps bouncing back and continues to investigate the Martian environment to this day. ...
NASA’s CuriosityMarsrover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this mound of rock nicknamed “East Cliffs” on May 7, 2022, the 3,466th sol, or Martian day, of the mission. The mound, on Mount Sharp, has a number of naturally occurring open fractures – including one roughly...
Curiosity, NASA’s Mars rover (探测器), recently took the world by surprise. It took a picture of a small “flower” while it was exploring the surface of Mars. Clearly, it’s not an actual flower. But it could be a rock that had been created a long time ago. Back then, the Red...
Curiosity rover captures rare iridescent noctilucent clouds on Mars. (photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) In January 2023,NASA's Curiosity rover captured images of noctilucent clouds during a Martian sunset, including a rare category of iridescent bright noctilucent clouds that appear feather-shaped...
Mars Curiosity Rover self-portrait. It is the fourth time Curiosity has recorded noctilucent clouds, always in the early fall of the Martian year and in the southern hemisphere. Scientists are stumped as to why the twilight clouds haven’t been spotted in other locations. The Perse...