Curiosity rover
Martian wheeled laboratory
Curiosity rover is a car-sized robotic vehicle NASA landed on Mars in 2012 to explore the planet's geology and climate.
It roams Gale Crater, analyzing rocks and soil, searching for signs that Mars once supported microbial life.
The rover's discoveries—evidence of ancient riverbeds, organic molecules—have shaped our understanding of the planet: Curiosity rover found conditions that could have supported life.
- spacecraftVehicle for outer space
- Martian soilGround on the red planet
- drill holesCreate circular perforations
- robotic armMotorized jointed machine appendage
- space probeRobotic interplanetary research vessel
rock samples · autonomous navigation · Mars · mission control · red planet · spectrometer · sensors · Martian atmosphere · dust storm · wheel tracks · planetary science · launch vehicle · lander · astronomy · ground control · interplanetary travel · thermal control · mechanical design
- Space HistoryApollo 11, moon landing, Sputnik, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin
- 2012London Olympics, Summer Olympics, Hurricane Sandy, Gangnam Style, US election
- mars historyMars rovers
- Mars climatedust storms, thin air, polar caps, ice caps, dry ice
- Nuclear VesselsUSS Nautilus, USS Nimitz, USS Enterprise, nuclear submarine, Lenin
- Mars dustred dust, dust particles, dust clouds, dust devils, regolith
Curiosity rovercrewed mission
Voyage with human operators
human spaceflight · Neil Armstrong · Mars colonization · astronaut
Curiosity roverJames Webb Space Telescope
Infrared space observatory
Hubble Space Telescope · Cassini · Juno · New Horizons · Voyager
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