On 5 August 2012, the NASA Curiosity Rover landed on Mars. NASA has provided several videos to commemorate Curiosity’s yearlong exploits. The first video condenses 12 months of images taken in “rover’s eye view” down into two minutes:
Click here 12 months in 2 minutes
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Posted in Curiosity Mars Rover, Mars, Mars Photos, NASA/GISS, Solar System
While the new, Mars Rover Curiosity is on everyone’s mind, Opportunity and Spirit Rovers have been on Mars since January of 2004. Spirit’s mission was ended in May of last year after being stuck in sand for about a year. Opportunity is still operational. Curiosity is more sophisticated than Opportunity and Spirit, but these two provided many new Martian mysteries to be solved. NASA’s website has some of the pictures that Opportunity has taken that are full of wonder for us Earth bound. You can see them here, and here and here.
The Mission Team for Opportunity and Spirit Rovers are to be awarded the Haley Space Flight Award. At launch the targeted operational life of these two rovers, on Mars, was estimated at 90 days.
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Posted in Curiosity Mars Rover, Mars, Mars Photos, NASA/GISS, Solar System
Posted in Curiosity Mars Rover, Mars, Mars Photos, NASA/GISS, Solar System
NASA has posted pictures and drawings from the Curiosity Mars Rover. There are 120 that you can see and/or download. To see the gallery click here
Somewhat off my usual topic but I think you will enjoy the view.
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