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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.
Curiosity is an American documentary television series that premiered on August 7, 2011, on the Discovery Channel. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Each episode focuses on one question in science, technology, and society (e.g., why the RMS Titanic sank) and, for the first season, features a different celebrity host.
Bradbury Landing is the August 6, 2012, landing site within Gale crater on planet Mars of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover. On August 22, 2012, on what would have been his 92nd birthday, NASA named the site for author Ray Bradbury, who had died on June 5, 2012.
Curiosity rover on Mars (5 August 2015). The Mars Science Laboratory and its rover, Curiosity, were launched from Earth on 26 November 2011. As of January 24, 2025, Curiosity has been on the planet Mars for 4432 sols (4554 total days; 12 years, 171 days) since landing on 6 August 2012.
TV series which involve NASA as an institution. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. T. Television series about the Apollo program (6 P)
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
NASA United States: Flyby Launch failure Payload fairing failed to separate Atlas LV-3 Agena-D: 7 Mariner 4: Mariner 4: 28 November 1964: NASA United States: Flyby Successful First successful flyby of Mars on 15 July 1965 Atlas LV-3 Agena-D: 8 Zond 2: Zond 2 (3MV-4A No.2) 30 November 1964 Soviet Union: Flyby Spacecraft failure Communications ...
NASA TV (originally NASA Select) was the television service of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It was broadcast by satellite with a simulcast over the Internet . Local cable television providers across the United States and amateur television repeaters carried NASA TV at their own discretion, as NASA-created content is ...