Items tagged with curiosity rover

by Tim Sweezy - Mon, Aug 08, 2022

NASA's Curiosity Rover Has Delivered Us A Decade Of Science, Here's What It Has Taught Us

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has made it to its 10th anniversary of being on the Red Planet. Despite showing its age with some wear and tear, the spacecraft is about to enter into a new phase of its mission as it prepares to climb a mountain. It may seem hard to believe that Curiosity has been on Mars for ten years... Read more...

by Tim Sweezy - Wed, Jul 27, 2022

Mars Rover Discovers An Ultra-Rare Martian Mineral Spewed From Volcanic Eruptions

The mystery of how a concentrated chunk of a rare mineral on Mars came to be located in Gale Crater may be solved. Researchers have published a scenario that could explain the 2016 discovery of tridymite by NASA's Curiosity rover. NASA continues to study the surface of Mars ahead of future manned missions to the... Read more...

by Tim Sweezy - Sun, May 15, 2022

NASA's Mars Rover Captures An Eerie Tomb-Like Doorway On The Red Planet

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover captured a photo earlier this month that looks like a hidden entrance to an underground alien base. The grainy black and white image was captured on May 7th by the rover's Mastcam. The thought of a secret Martian base beneath the surface of the red planet has been the fodder for many a... Read more...

by Tim Sweezy - Tue, Mar 08, 2022

Um Houston, There's A Mars Rock Wedged In The Wheel Of NASA's $2.2B Perseverance Rover

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover seems to have picked up a traveling companion. Late last month, an image was captured by the Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera A of a stone wedged in one of the rover's six aluminum wheels. Back on February 25th, 2022, an image from Perseverance captured a stowaway stone lodged into... Read more...

by Tim Sweezy - Fri, Dec 03, 2021

NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Shows Off 360-Degree Selfie In 81 Images Snapped On The Red Planet

NASA's Curiosity rover has been sending images back from the surface of Mars since its landing in 2012. The latest of those images was a 360-degree selfie that would make any teenager back here on Earth envious. The Mars Rover Curiosity landed on the surface of the red planet on August 5, 2012. Since that time it... Read more...