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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...