Mars Rover Curiosity Mission

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Mars Rover Curiosity Mission Artist’s image of the Curiosity rover on Mars

Mars Rover Curiosity: Mission Stats Take notes! (p.19 of your notebook) Launched Nov. 26, 2011 Arrived Aug. 5, 2012 (36 weeks later) Duration: 2 years on Mars Rover weighs almost 1 ton (1,982 lbs) Distance traveled from Earth to Mars: 352 million miles (567 million kilometer) Remember yesterday? Like standing on a peppercorn and hitting a pinhead 42′ away

Mars Rover Curiosity: Mission Goals Understand the geology Did it ever have life? Could it sustain life in the future? The first high-resolution color mosaic from NASA's Curiosity rover, showing the geological environment around the rover's landing site in Gale Crater.

Mars Rover Curiosity: Images Mars Rover Image Gallery First Curiosity video: 360 degree view of landing site So much to see! nasa.gov Layers at the base of Mt. Sharp (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)