NASA's next Mars rover, the car-sized Curiosity, is gearing up for its 2011 launch piece by piece. Here is some basic information about Curiosity and its $2.3 billion mission.
Curiosity rover also has an array of cool functions. But, as demonstrated in this 2010 portrait at NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, it's only about the size of a Mini Cooper.Terrific selfies JPL-Caltech/NASA/AP This photo, released by NASA on June 23, 2014 shows a self-portrait by ...
Curiosity is a car-sized robot Rover exploring the Gale crater on Mars as part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, also known as MSL. As of June 21st, 2016, Curiosity has been on Mars for 1378 sols, or 1415 total days since landing on August 6th, 2012. Its main goal is to ...
A region of Mars explored by the Curiosity rover in 2015 is raising a lot of questions for NASA scientists. Known as the “Marias Pass,” the area is a geological contact zone where a layer of sandstone sits atop a bed of mudstone. The region has an exceptionallyhigh concentration of sili...
2. Mars Has Frozen Water Today: We’re very interested in the question of water because it implies habitability; simply put, life as we know it is more likely to exist with water there. In fact, the Curiosity rover’s mandate on Mars right now is tosearch for habitable environments(in ...
Whether it's the possibility of life or the uniqueness of the planet itself, these are 25 awesome facts about Mars!
In November 2011, NASA launched the Curiosity rover, a more advanced version of previous Mars rovers. It landed in 2012. Over 15,000 (6,800 kg) pounds of human trash has been left on Mars from all of our missions there. It was once thought that analien skull was found on Mars. ...
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
The Curiosity Mars rover's first color photograph of a sunset in 2015 revealed a surprising twist — sunsets on Mars are blue. 美国宇航局表示,这是由于火星大气层的尘埃颗粒较小,散射蓝光的能力强于长波颜色(如黄色、橙色、红色)。 NASA said this is because "dust in the Martian atmosphere has fine...
Fact 8.Mars was once dominated by oceans, until they suddenly disappeared. However, all the waters could make only 1.5% of all water present on Earth. Fact 9.In the years 2014, theCuriosity Rover, a car-sized robotic rover deployed by NASAto explore the Gale Crater, discovered burps of ...