#curiosity rover

On August 6, 2012, 05:17 UTC, Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover landed on Aeolis Palus, a flat area inside the Gale crater on Mars. One of Curiosity’s main missions is to find evidence of past or present microbial life or if there environmental conditions that could sustain microbial

Even robots on another planet are so vain that they can’t help but to snap a selfie of themselves. NASA’s Curiosity rover took a magnificent selfie while posing with a stunning landscape in the background. NASA rovers, they’re just like us! While exploring Mars, the Curiosity rover took a selfie on

Geomorphologist Lujendra Ojha of Georgia Tech first noticed strange streaks on Mars in 2011. They appeared on the walls of craters — dark, downhill smears that appeared and then disappeared.... read more The post What Water on Mars Means for the Future of Space Exploration appeared first on

The new findings combine more than two years of data collected by the rover since its sky-crane landing inside Gale Crater in August 2012. Scientists discovered stacks of rocks containing water-deposited sediments inclined toward the crater’s centre, which now sports a three-mile (5km) mound