Today NASA's Curiosity rover celebrates 10 years on the red planet, and it's still going strong.
Today NASA’s Curiosity rover celebrates 10 years on Mars, and it’s still going strong since its landing on August 6, 2012. As the first of a new design of Martian rover along with Perseverance, Curiosity has not only provided illuminating scientific information about the history and geology of the planet but has also demonstrated a host of engineering concepts that have made rovers bigger and better than ever before.
A bigger and heavier rover faces a bigger challenge, though, in terms of how it can be landed on Mars. Previous generations of Mars rovers were covered in airbags and essentially dropped onto the surface where they would bounce around before coming to a stop, with air in the airbags protecting them from impacts. But Curiosity’s significant mass made airbags ineffective, so a new landing system was developed.
Curiosity immediately captured the hearts of the public and has produced stunning images of the Martian landscape as well as beautiful images of clouds in addition to its work looking for signs of ancient life and measuring the martian atmosphere. Some of its most popular outreach projects have included enormous high-resolution panoramas and videos showing the Gale Crater, where it is exploring.
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