Curiosity Rover Departs Vera Rubin Ridge After exploring Mars’ Vera Rubin Ridge for more than a year, NASA’s Curiosity rover recently moved on. But a new 360-video lets the public visit Curiosity’s final drill site on the ridge, an area ...
Read More »NASA Finds Evidence of Diverse Environments in Curiosity Samples
Click for a full size image Key Locations Studied at ‘Pahrump Hills’ on Mars NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover examined a mudstone outcrop area called “Pahrump Hills” on lower Mount Sharp, in 2014 and 2015. This view shows locations of some ...
Read More »The Heat is On
The saucer-like Mars Science Laboratory, which landed the Curiosity rover on MARS, featured the largest heat shield (pictured here)—at 14 feet 9 inches in diameter—to enter a planet’s atmosphere. NASA is now engaging in R&D for even larger heat shields ...
Read More »Second Cycle of Martian Seasons Completing for Curiosity Rover
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has made measurements of Martian weather for two Mars years, since arriving there in 2012. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Second Cycle of Martian Seasons Completing for Curiosity Rover NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover today completes its second Martian year ...
Read More »Curiosity rover finds ancient lake in Martian crater
Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS) NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity catches a glimpse of Whale Rock, which shows structures that indicate water once flowed over a loose bed of sediment. (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) Sedimentary layers of rock on the ...
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