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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 rover on Mars (5 August 2015). The Mars Science Laboratory and its rover, Curiosity, were launched from Earth on 26 November 2011. As of December 19, 2024, Curiosity has been on the planet Mars for 4398 sols (4518 total days; 12 years, 135 days) since landing on 6 August 2012.
Mount Sharp, officially Aeolis Mons (/ ˈ iː ə l ɪ s m ɒ n z /), is a mountain on Mars.It forms the central peak within Gale crater and is located around , rising 5.5 km (18,000 ft) high from the valley
The Curiosity rover has made its most unusual find to date on Mars: rocks made of pure sulfur. And it all began when the 1-ton rover happened to drive over a rock and crack it open, revealing ...
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a robotic space probe mission to Mars launched by NASA on November 26, 2011, [2] which successfully landed Curiosity, a Mars rover, in Gale Crater on August 6, 2012.
Colorized shaded relief map of the crater Gale. The general landing area for Curiosity on the northwestern crater floor, named Aeolis Palus, is circled.(HRSC data) Gale, named for Walter F. Gale (1865–1945), an amateur astronomer from Australia, spans 154 km (96 mi) in diameter and holds a mountain, Aeolis Mons (informally named "Mount Sharp" to pay tribute to geologist Robert P. Sharp ...
NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since 2012, and it recently came upon a rather puzzling find. While scouring Mars' Mount Sharp earlier this week, the rover stumbled ...
Bradbury Landing, Curiosity rover landing site (August 6, 2012). [20] (Note: Due to the nature of the landing system, there is no actual space hardware at the touchdown location of Bradbury Landing, see Curiosity) InSight Landing, the InSight lander (2018)