View raw images taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover.

2 days ago · Mars is one of the most explored bodies in our solar system, and it’s the only planet where we’ve sent rovers to explore the alien landscape. NASA missions have found lots of evidence that Mars was much wetter and warmer, with a thicker atmosphere, billions of years ago.

Jan 12, 2021 · It’s been 3,000 Martian days, or sols, since Curiosity touched down on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, and the rover keeps making new discoveries during its gradual climb up Mount Sharp, the 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain it has been exploring since 2014.

Raw images of Mars taken by the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars helicopter in Jezero Crater.

This image was taken by Mast Camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3466 (2022-05-07 07:58:16 UTC). Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, Curiosity is the largest and most capable rover ever sent to Mars. Curiosity’s mission is to answer the question: did Mars ever have the right environmental conditions to support small life forms called microbes?

Curiosity will be the first Mars rover capable of detecting these elements. Curiosity's rock-zapping laser can hit a rock or soil target up to 23 feet (7 meters away) with enough energy to pulverize a pinhead spot on the rock.

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NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission set down a large, mobile laboratory — the rover Curiosity — at Gale Crater, using precision landing technology that made one of Mars’ most intriguing regions a viable destination for the first time.

The Curiosity rover took this self portrait on Mars that includes its MMRTG elec-trical power source (the white cylinder with radiator fins, at the rear of the rover).