Curiosity Rover
NASA’s Curiosity rover sends a beautiful postcard image from Mars.
- Launch Year – 2012.
- It is a part of Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission of NASA.
- It is the largest and most capable rover ever sent to Mars.
- Aim – To climb onto the layered deposit in the center of the Gale Crater to assess its possible origins.
- Gale crater, located just south of the Martian equator was formed by the impact of a large meteorite sometime between 3.5 and 3.8 billion years ago.
- Findings – Curiosity’s scientific tools found chemical and mineral evidence of past habitable environments on Mars.
- It continues to explore the rock record from a time when Mars could have been home to microbial life.
687 Earth days = One Mars year
| Mars Missions | Countries |
| Mangalyaan | India |
| Perseverance | U.S. |
| Hope | UAE |
| Tianwen-1 | China |
| Mars 2 and Mars 3 | Russia |
| Insights | U.S. |
