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Happy anniversary, Curiosity! NASA rover marks 8 years on Mars – techtoday19
Home News Science & Astronomy A self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover taken on June 15, 2018. A Martian dust storm had reduced sunlight and visibility at the rover’s location in Gale Crater at the time. (Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA would be thrille…
NASA would be thrilled if its newly launched Mars rover ended up matching its predecessor’s longevity.
The agency’s car-sized Curiosity rover
celebrates eight (Earth) years on the Red Planet today (Aug. 5), less than a week after the Perseverance rover took flight toward Mars
.
The synergy in timing is appropriate; Perseverance shares Curiosity’s chassis and “sky crane” landing strategy
, among other features. And the new rover will build upon the many discoveries that Curiosity has made …
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