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Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover exploring Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. [2] Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral (CCAFS) on November 26, 2011, at 15:02:00 UTC and landed on Aeolis Palus inside Gale crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, 05:17:57 UTC.
Mark Rober is an American YouTuber, engineer, inventor, and educator.He is known for his YouTube videos on popular science and do-it-yourself gadgets.Before he became a YouTuber, Rober was an engineer with NASA for nine years, where he spent seven years working on the Curiosity rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
On 6 August 2013, NASA celebrated Curiosity 's first year on Mars (6 August 2012 to 5 August 2013) by programming the rover to perform the "Happy Birthday" song to itself. [99] [100] NASA also released several videos (video-1, video-2) summarizing the rover's accomplishments over the year.
What's It's Like to Land on Mars, NASA.gov, video 4m06s. Steltzner narrates the Curiosity landing. 7 Minutes of Terror: The Challenges of Getting to Mars, YouTube.com, video 5m08s. Steltzner, among others, describes the engineering challenges of the Curiosity landing. Adam Steltzner at Twitter; Adam Steltzner at Facebook
The “six-wheeled geologist” (as NASA calls it) doesn’t contain an onboard lab like its sister rover, Curiosity. But that’s actually a feature—not a flaw.
While surveying the site of an ancient channel on Mars, the Curiosity rover ran over a rock and discovered pure sulfur on the red planet for the first time.
Despite its late hour, particularly on the east coast of the United States where it was 1:31 a.m., [9] the landing generated significant public interest. 3.2 million watched the landing live with most watching online instead of on television via NASA TV or cable news networks covering the event live. [133]
Watch live as a Nasa spacecraft returns to Earth with the largest asteroid sample in history on Sunday 24 September. After a seven-year, four-billion-mile journey across space, the ambitious NASA ...