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

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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)